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“We all live day to day completely oblivious to the fact that we’re a part of a much larger and stranger reality than we can possibly imagine.”
“Getting a new version of the answer every day, Artyom was unable to compel himself to believe what was true, because the next day another, no less precise and comprehensive one, might arise. Whom should he believe? And in what? ... Any faith served man only as a crutch supporting him. ... He understood why man needs this support. Without it, life would have become empty, like an abandoned tunnel.”
― Metro 2033
― Metro 2033
“For the highest man shall also be the highest lord on earth. There is no sorer misfortune in all human destiny, than when the mighty of the earth are not also the first men. Then everything becomes false and distorted and monstrous.
And when they are even the last men, and more beast than man, then
rises and rises the populace in honour, and at last says even the
populace-virtue: 'Behold, I alone am virtue!”
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And when they are even the last men, and more beast than man, then
rises and rises the populace in honour, and at last says even the
populace-virtue: 'Behold, I alone am virtue!”
―
“Boj proti zlu! Ale co je to zlo? Každý má možnost ho chápat po svém. Pro nás, vědce, je zlo v neznalosti, ale církev učí, že neznalost je štěstí a všechno zlo pochází naopak z vědění. Pro rolníka jsou zlem daně a sucha, kdežto pro obchodníka obilím jsou sucha požehnáním. Pro otroka je zlem opilý pán, pro řemeslníka ziskuchtivý lichvář. Tak co je vlastně zlo, proti kterému se má bojovat? Zlo se nedá vyhubit. Žádný člověk není schopen snížit množství zla ve světě. Může jen poněkud zlepšit svůj vlastní osud, ale vždycky na úkor zhoršení osudu jiných. A vždycky budou králové, více či méně krutí, baroni, více či méně divocí, a vždycky bude omezený lid, nadšeně vzhlížející ke svým utlačovatelům a nenávidějící svého osvoboditele. A to všechno proto, že otrok mnohem lépe rozumí svému pánovi, byť sebekrutějšímu, než svému osvoboditeli, neboť každý otrok si výborně dokáže představit sám sebe na místě pána, ale málokdo si představuje sám sebe na místě nezištného osvoboditele. Takoví jsou lidé. Takový je náš svět.”
― Hard to Be a God
― Hard to Be a God
“To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.”
― The Rise of Endymion
― The Rise of Endymion
“Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
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