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We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side.

Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Thomas Mann, Essay on Freud (16 May 1929)

“I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.”

Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

[Being beaten] It’s nothing if you answer back." "Answer back by being alive.

The Tale of Princess Kaguya

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

Wendell Berry, What are people for?

#art #artists #perspective

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Wendell Berry

#nature #environment #politics

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Albert Camus, A Happy Death

I shall not try to change anything that I think or anything that you think (insofar as I can judge of it) in order to reach a reconciliation that would be agreeable to all. On the contrary, what I feel like telling you today is that the world needs real dialogue, that falsehood is just as much the opposite of dialogue as is silence, and that the only possible dialogue is the kind between people who remain what they are and speak their minds.

Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay

The botanists' plants are not the flowers of the hedgerow.

Martin Heidegger, Analysis of Environmentality and Worldliness in General

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

George MacDonald, What's Mine Is Mine

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

George MacDonald, Lillith

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

George MacDonald, Lillith

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

George MacDonald, The Imagination

Past tears are present strength.

George MacDonald, Phantastes

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