Sergey

“And how can we lose this maddening self, lose it entirely? Love? Yes, but as old Cephalus once heard Sophocles say, the least of us know that love is a cruel and terrible master. One loses oneself for the sake of the other, but in doing so becomes enslaved and miserable to the most capricious of all the gods.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“If you extol reason, then what matters is the integrity of the thoughts, not the personalities of the thinkers”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress