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“It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men --this and nothing else is its duty”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“ახლა ყველა ადამიანი მოთხრობა მგონია, იმწუთშივე წარმოვიდგენ, რომ მოთხრობა ხარ და სათაურს გამოგიძებნი...”
― გოდერძი ჩოხელი/Goderdzi Chokheli, ადამიანთა სევდა

“_ რა არის სიცოცხლე?
_ სიცოცხლე სევდა არის, ადამიანად ყოფნის ტკბილი სევდა.
_ სიკვდილი?
_ სიკვდილიც სევდა არის, ადამიანად არყოფნის სევდა.”
― Goderdzi Chokheli

“მე მოვდიოდი დასაბამიდან და ჩემი სული ყვავილივით მომქონდა შენთვის.”
― გოდერძი ჩოხელი/Goderdzi Chokheli

“And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”
― C.G. Jung

“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
― Isaac Newton

“Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”
― Martin Heidegger

“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. ”
― Martin Heidegger

“And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.”
― Plato, Symposium

“Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“The truth about eros is terrifying.”
― Seth Benardete, The Symposium

“Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace.”
― Ingmar Bergman, Persona and Shame

“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.

Consider all this; and then turn to the green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half-known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make plans for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually face crucifixion if it were suddenly necessary. Yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone for two days together. I know from experience. As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs me and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he’s too long over his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I hate men individually the more I love humanity.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“ოლია!
როდესაც ჩამოვალ, უსათუოდ ერთად უნდა ვიცხოვროთ, აქედან წამოვიღებ რამე-რამეებს. ტანისამოსი გინდა, შენ! მე ვოცნებობ ჩვენ ერთად ყოფნაზე, პატარა ბავშვზე, განა კარგი არ არის? აჰ, ნეტავი კარგად მოვეწყობოდეთ. მე ამის იმედი მაქვს. კარგია, კარგი ცხოვრება! ცხოვრებას ჭკვიანად უნდა მობყრობა, ცხოვრება მიდის!" გალაკტიონი”
― გალაკტიონ ტაბიძე