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“Nature is the art of God.”
― Dante Alighieri

“A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.”
― Dante

“War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
― Anonymous

“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me.

That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind...”
― Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

“But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.”
― Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

“Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.”
― Immanuel Kant

“If the truth shall kill them, let them die.”
― Immanuel Kant

“The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous, rather than cowardly.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy

“The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, The Golden Apple

“The world that used to nurse us
now keeps shouting inane instructions.
That's why I ran to the woods.”
― Jim Harrison, Songs of Unreason

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky