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“Τοῦτο ἔχει ἡ τελειότης τοῦ ἤθους, τὸ πᾶσαν ἡμέραν ὡς τελευταίαν διεξάγειν καὶ μήτε σφύζειν μήτε ναρκᾶν μήτε ὑποκρίνεσθαι. http://el.wikisource.org/wiki/Τα_εις_...”
― Marcus Aurelius, Ad Se Ipsum Libri XII

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

“I am nothing.
I'll never be anything.
I couldn't want to be something.
Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“In order to understand, I destroyed myself.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

“While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact, and explicitly self-institute (αυτο-νομούνται). In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies attribute their imaginaries to some extra-social authority (i.e. God, ancestors, historical necessity)”
― Cornelius Castoriadis, The Imaginary Institution of Society

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

“Real dialogue isn’t about talking to people who believe the same things as you.”
― Zygmunt Bauman