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“They’re afraid because they have never accepted themselves. A community consisting exclusively of people afraid of the unknown in themselves! They all feel that the rules they live by are no longer valid, that they’re following outdated commandments; neither their religions nor their morality, nothing is suited to what we need. For a century and more, Europe has done nothing but study and build factories! They know exactly how many grams of powder it takes to kill someone, but they don’t know how to pray to God, they don’t even know how to be contented for an hour at a time.”
Demian • Hermann Hesse“ “It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time.””
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind • Yuval Noah Harari“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.”
The Merchant of Venice • William Shakespeare““So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them — at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.””
12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos • Jordan B. Peterson““We are no other than a moving row / Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go.””
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam