Nick

“Antisemitism is a mirror for the failings of individuals, social structures and state systems. Tell me what you accuse the Jews of – I’ll tell you what you’re guilty of.”
― Vassily Grosman

“The totality of what exists, including what has existed and will exist, is infinitely small in comparison with the totality of the objects of knowledge. This fact easily goes unnoticed, probably because the lively interest in reality which is part of our nature tends to favor that exaggeration which finds the non-real a mere nothing (...) or, more precisely, which finds the non-real to be something for which science has no application or at least no application of any worth.”
― Alexius Meinong, Über Gegenstandstheorie. Selbstdarstellung.

“The task of interpretation is to take the letter and history as the point of departure and move upward to the spiritual realities.”
― Karen Jo Torjesen, Hermeneutical Procedure and Theological Method in Origen's Exegesis

“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead