J. Tim Willis

“Music does not depend on being right, on having good taste and education and all that.” “Indeed. Then what does it depend on?” “On making music, Herr Haller, on making music as well and as much as possible and with all the intensity of which one is capable.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“Nihil est in intellectu quod non ante fuerit in sensu,”
― Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

“But now, his liberated eyes stayed on this side, he saw and became aware of the visible, sought to be at home in this world, did not search for the true essence, did not aim at a world beyond. Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike. Beautiful were the moon and the stars, beautiful was the stream and the banks, the forest and the rocks, the goat and the golden beetle, the flower and the butterfly. It was beautiful and lovely to walk through the world, childlike and awake, open to what is near without distrust.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings