“Cette envie de faire demi-tour lorsqu'on est au bord de saisir ce que l'on désire.”
― Dans les forêts de Sibérie
― Dans les forêts de Sibérie
“There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature…yes, that's it: just thinking about trees and their indifferent majesty and our love for them teaches us how ridiculous we are - vile parasites squirming on the surface of the earth - and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.”
― The Schopenhauer Cure
― The Schopenhauer Cure
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