Frederik Gieschen

“One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“This bears relevance to the issue of our wholeness. Your nervous system is imprinted with the rhythms of the mechanical sounds in which it is immersed—your cells tugged by the frenzy of its jittery beat. You may not even realize how long it’s been since they’ve come truly to rest until you move so far into nature that you escape all audible evidence of machinery. If you can remain there long enough, you may feel the undercurrent of driving, repetitive white noise slowly leave your body, making room for the spacious orchestra of the wide world around you.”
― Philip Shepherd, Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being

“So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor inevitable, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we can imagine.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind