Maarten Sebastiaan

“The point of history is not what can be uprooted or shaken, but rather the openness to the shaking.”
― Jan Patočka, Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History

“Most beautiful rocks form under pressure, it's same with people.”
― Veli Saupõld

“Man is everywhere in chains, and his chains will not be broken till he feels that it is degrading to be a bondsman, whether to an individual or to a State. The disease of civilization is not so much the material poverty of the many as the decay of the spirit of freedom and self-confidence. The revolt that will change the world will spring, not from the benevolence that breeds "reform", but from the will to be free. Men will act together in the full consciousness of their mutual dependence; but they will act for themselves. Their liberty will not be given them from above; they will take it on their own behalf.”
― G. D. H. Cole

“You have courage, minstrel,” said Piros.

Alaric shook his head. “Less than you think, good Piros. But I have considerable curiosity, and that sometimes masquerades as courage.”
― Phyllis Eisenstein, Rogues