Toni

“Der Nationalglaube in Europa, im Norden noch viel mehr als im Süden, war pantheistisch, seine Mysterien und Symbole bezogen sich auf einen Naturdienst, in jedem Elemente verehrte man wunderbare Wesen, in jedem Baume atmete eine Gottheit, die ganze Erscheinungswelt war durchgöttert; das Christentum verkehrte diese Ansicht und an die Stelle einer durchgötterten Natur trat eine durchteufelte.”
― Heinrich Heine

“As they carried along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“But between the people who produce things over and above what they consume, and send them out into the world, and the people who don't produce anything and who do nothing but consume, which are the great human beings? Which are the important human beings? If you ask yourself this, it's not much of a puzzle, is it?”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

“That is why I think the first, most basic step in these matters is to start with the moments of real feeling in your life, when your heart is truly moved, and to think about the meaning of those. The things that you feel most deeply, from the very bottom of your heart, will never deceive you in the slightest. And so at all times, in all things, whatever feelings you may have, consider these carefully.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?