Ben

“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”
― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

“To pluck a flower means to take possession of it, and it also means to kill it.”
― Anthony Bloom, Beginning to Pray

“Men who give up the common goal of all things that exist, thereby cease to exist themselves. Some may perhaps think it strange that we say that wicked men, who form the majority of men, do not exist; but that is how it is. I am not trying to deny the wickedness of the wicked; what I do deny is that their existence is absolute and complete existence. Just as you might call a corpse a dead man, but couldn't simply call it a man, so I would agree that the wicked are wicked, but could not agree that they have unqualified existence.”
― Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot