Anton

“Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.”
― Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

“Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.”
― Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― Joseph Campbell