Alex

“A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean”
― Will Durant

“Rejection of the unknown is tantamount to “identification with the devil,” the mythological counterpart and eternal adversary of the world-creating exploratory hero. Such rejection and identification is a consequence of Luciferian pride, which states: all that I know is all that is necessary to know. This pride is totalitarian assumption of omniscience – is adoption of “God’s place” by “reason” – is something that inevitably generates a state of personal and social being indistinguishable from hell. This hell develops because creative exploration – impossible, without (humble) acknowledgment of the unknown – constitutes the process that constructs and maintains the protective adaptive structure that gives life much of its acceptable meaning”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

“The ageing process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball”
― Doug Larson

“Но престани с играта скръбноболна,
тя жив те ръфа като лешояд,
бъди и сред компания най-долна
с човеците-човек,лишен от яд!”
― Кръстьо Станишев, Faust