Ada Roszkowska

“It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion--its message becomes meaningless.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“Wewnętrzny bunt jest nieraz potrzebny dla zdrowia i bywa szczególną odmianą szczęścia. To, co może być powiedziane, bywa o wiele mniej interesujące niż emocjonalna magia obrony własnego sanktuarium.”
― Czesław Miłosz, The Captive Mind

“Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.”
― Harry Emerson Fosdick