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“This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.”
Travels with Charley: In Search of America • John Steinbeck“This ordered universe, which is the same for all, was not created by any one of the gods or by man, but always was, is, and shall be, an ever-living Flame that is first kindled and then quenched in turn. [The universe bursts forth and then is reabsorbed, yet its Source is ever-living, like a Sun that never sets] and who can hide from that which never sets? [That eternal Intelligence in man] is forever beyond change;”
Fragments • Heraclitus“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you got two new people. Maybe that means — hell, it's complicated.”
The Winter of Our Discontent • John Steinbeck“Let us... be careful of admitting into our souls the notion that there is no truth or health or soundness in any arguments at all; but let us rather say that there is as yet no health in us, and that we must quit ourselves like men and do our best to gain health—you and all other men with a view to the whole of your future life, and I myself with a view to death.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“It is a shame for those who sweeten drink with the gifts of the bees, by badness to embitter reason which is the gift of the gods.”
Fragment • Epictetus