Dimitri Dudko

“Kierkegaard was a Christian, though he hated the Danish Church and couldn't accept the way complacent Christians around him behaved. For him, religion was a heart-wrenching option, not a cosy excuse for a song in church.”
― Nigel Warburton, A Little History of Philosophy

“In the first place, sensation (aisthesis) is a corporeal process which we have in common with animals, and in which the impression of an exterior object is transmitted to the soul. By means of this process, an image (phantasia) of the object is produced in the soul, or more precisely in the guiding part (hegemonikon) of the soul”
― Pierre Hadot, The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

“Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.”
― David Whyte, Everything Is Waiting for You

“Don’t we all hope for some form of immortality? We might not be able to breathe forever but there are other ways to stay alive.”
― John Boyne, A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom