Constantine Melios

“Man is made of dirt - I saw him made. I am not made of dirt. Man is a museum of diseases, a home of impurities; he comes to-day and is gone tomorrow; he begins as dirt and departs as stench; I am of the aristocracy of the Imperishables. And man has the Moral Sense. You understand? He has the Moral Sense. That would seem to be difference enough between us, all by itself."

"I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it.”
― Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Αλλά με τις ξόβεργες μπορεί να πιάνεις πουλιά, δεν πιάνεις ποτέ το κελαηδητό τους. Χρειάζεται η άλλη βέργα, της μαγείας, και ποιος μπορεί να την κατασκευάσει αν δεν του ’χει από μιας αρχής δοθεί;”
― Οδυσσέας Ελύτης

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring