Andreas

“When a metaphor gets big, it is called “tradition”; when it gets bigger, it is called “reality”;”
― John Dominic Crossan, The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus

“What will undo any boundary is the awareness that it is our vision, and not what we are viewing, that is limited.”
― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

“I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar - and no savage criminals to rid the world of? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges?

Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep. So by snoring his life away in luxury and comfort he never would have developed into the mighty Hercules.

And even if he had, what good would it have done him? What would have been the use of those arms, that physique, and that noble soul, without crises or conditions to stir into him action?”
― Epictetus, The Discourses