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“No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“If salvation and help are to come, it is through the child ; for the child is the constructor of man.”
― Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind

“The roar of laughter at civilization’s end.”
― Osamu Dazai, ヴィヨンの妻 [Viyon No Tsuma]