“I am, he thought, a part of all that I have touched and that has touched me, which, having for me no existence save that which I gave to it, became other than itself by being mixed with what I then was, and is now still otherwise, having fused with what I now am, which is itself a cumulation of what…”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”— George Orwell, amazon.com
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”— Plato, amazon.com
“I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“We had never stopped asking this question previously, and we already had the answer, which has not changed: philosophy is the art of forming, inventing, and fabricating concepts.”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.com
“Freedom does not lie in discovering or being able to determine who we are, but in rebelling against those ways in which we are already defined, categorized, and classified.”— John Rajchman, amazon.com
“I cannot help you, because the questions are so difficult that it would run counter to the sense of this task of thinking to suddenly step out in public in order to preach and dispense moral censures.”— Martin Heidegger, ditext.com