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“For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”
Man's Search For Meaning • Viktor E Frankl“We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.”
Autumn Leaves • Andre Gide““He will require to grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world. And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves; then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven; and he will see the sky and the stars by night better than the sun or the light of the sun by day?””
Republic • Plato“His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”
A Christmas Carol • Charles Dickens“Physiologists and molecular biologists regularly fall into the trap of overlooking this distinction, which is fundamental to biology, history, and human behavior. Physiology and molecular biology can do no more than identify proximate mechanisms; only evolutionary biology can provide ultimate causal explanations.”
Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality • Jared Diamond