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“I conceive that the founders of the mysteries had a real meaning and were not mere triflers when they intimated in a figure long ago that he who passes unsanctified and uninitiated into the world below will live in a slough, but that he who arrives there after initiation and purification will dwell with the gods. For "many," as they say in the mysteries, "are the thyrsus bearers, but few are the mystics,"—meaning, as I interpret the words, the true philosophers.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.”
The Critic as Artist • Oscar Wilde“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson • Mark Twain“ As Voltaire once wrote, The best is the enemy of the good.”
Atomic Habits • James Clear““It seems clear that the Arab East still sees the West as a natural enemy. Against that enemy, any hostile action-be it political, military, or based on oil-is considered no more than legitimate vengeance. And there can be no doubt that the schism between these two worlds dates from the Crusades, deeply felt by the Arabs, even today, as an act of rape””
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes • Amin Maalouf