"Through a forest of challenges, thought moves and squirms, resisting beguilements; if it endures, it emerges pure."

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“To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.”

“I imagined I was God for a millisecond and became speechless for a long time.”

“Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.”

“I can see myself before myself—a being through dark scenery.”

“Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.”

“Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.”

Resonant Thoughts

"It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to cond…"

— Frederic G. Kenyon

Politics1863–1952

#nature

"A conscience that is only sluggish, may submit to truth when it happens to meet with it: but a conscience under the seductions of passion, will not submit to it without great difficulty, and will devi…"

— Alexandre Vinet

Religion1797–1847

#life

"To me, in these circumstances, that of "Hero-worship" becomes a fact inexpressibly precious; the most solacing fact one sees in the world at present. There is an everlasting hope in it for the managem…"

— Thomas Carlyle

Philosophy1795–1881

#philosophy

"In 1973 I suddenly came into major private problems. I was completely thrown back on myself. Then I found those trousers between the old stuff. A worn-out, eighty times repaired, filthy pair of pants …"

— Jopie Huisman

Art1922–2000

#religion