Mateo

“The river ran on, no one knew where or why, just as it had in May; from a small stream it flowed into a large river to the sea, then rose to vapor and returned in rain; and perhaps the very same water he had seen in May was again flowing before his eyes...For what purpose? Why? And the whole world, all of life, seemed to Ryabovich to be an incomprehensible, aimless jest.”
― Anton Chekhov , The Kiss

“Modern man, instead of attempting to raise himself to truth, seeks to drag truth down to his own level.”
― René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World

“Do.As.Thou.Wilt.”
― Peter O'Toole

“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power