Pavel

“Modern physics plays perhaps only a small role in this dangerous process of unification. But it helps at two very decisive points to guide the development into a calmer kind of evolution. First, it shows that the use of arms in the process would be disastrous and, second, through its openness for all kinds of concepts it raises the hope that in the final state of unification many different cultural traditions may live together and may combine different human endeavors into a new kind of balance between thought and deed, between activity and meditation.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

“Nyní se vraceli do pevnosti Yukon, aby si tam našli práci a rozhodli se, co budou dělat dál. Tak jako většině lidí, kteří se rozhodli žít v divočině, jim jedna zima stačila.”
― Karel Dohnal, Yukon Solo

“Philip was silent. These discussions of personal relations always made him uncomfortable. They threatened his solitude - that solitude which, with a part of his mind, he deplored (for he felt himself cut off from much he would have liked to experience), but in which alone he felt himself free. At ordinary times he took this inward solitude for granted, as one accepts the atmosphere in which one lives. But when it was menaced, he became only too painfully aware of its importance to him; he fought for it, as a choking man fights for air. But it was a fight without violence, a negative battle of retirement and defence.”
― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

“For some moments I exert everything to reach something far down inside the deepest existential places of myself. To find something divine. To grab at it... maybe. But I uncover nothing but myself and a sense of enormous absurdity and furtility.”
― Behrouz Boochani, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison