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“It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything.”
― Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses

“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no one knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is not this ignorance of a disgraceful sort, the ignorance which is the conceit that a man knows what he does not know? And in this respect only I believe myself to differ from men in general, and may perhaps claim to be wiser than they are:—that whereas I know but little of the world below, I do not suppose that I know: but I do know that injustice and disobedience to a better, whether God or man, is evil and dishonorable, and I will never fear or avoid a possible good rather than a certain evil.”
― Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates

“If you, free as you are of every weight
had stayed below, then that would be as strange
as living flame on earth remaining still."

And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.”
― Dante Alighieri, Paradise

“Knowledge has three degrees—opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second dialectic; of the third intuition. To the last I subordinate reason. It is absolute knowledge founded on the identity of the mind knowing with the object known.”
― Plotinus

“But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Treatises on Friendship and Old Age

“It was the outstanding fact about St. Thomas [Aquinas] that he loved books and lived on books ... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas

“Всегда удивляюсь тому, сколько слюны у простого народа.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Despair