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“Every tradition grows ever more venerable - the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.”
Human, All Too Human • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.”
Beware of Pity • Stefan Zweig“The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.”
The Inspector General • Nikolai Gogol“We can understand one another, but each of us can only interpret himself.”
Demian • Hermann Hesse“Religious values tend to be especially deeply held and hence frequent cause of disastrous behaviour. [...] The modern world provides us with abundant secular examples of admirable values to which we cling under conditions where those values no longer make sense [...] It appears to me that much of the rigid opposition to environmental concerns in the First World nowadays involves values acquired early in life and never again reexamined [...].”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond