Diana

“Pentru ego, momentul prezent este, în cel mai bun caz, util doar ca un mijloc ce conduce spre un scop. El vă duce spre un moment viitor considerat a fi mai important, chiar dacă viitorul nu vine niciodată decât sub formă de moment prezent şi nu este, prin urmare, nimic mai mult decât un gând din mintea voastră. Cu alte cuvinte, nu sunteţi niciodată pe deplin aici, deoarece sunteţi întotdeauna ocupaţi cu încercarea de a ajunge în altă parte.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth. Awakening to Your Life's Purpose. 52 Inspiration Cards.

“And, as in a body which is diseased the addition of a touch from without may bring on illness, and sometimes even when there is no external provocation a commotion may arise within—in the same way wherever there is weakness in the State there is also likely to be illness, of which the occasions may be very slight, the one party introducing from without their oligarchical, the other their democratical allies, and then the State falls sick, and is at war with herself; and may be at times distracted, even when there is no external cause.”
― Plato, Republic

“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”
― Plato, Plato's Republic

“And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty?”
― Plato, Republic