Margarita

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“If you study magic, does it become science?"
"You learn it's all science.”
― Ted Kosmatka, The Flicker Men

“Our experience of consciousness is so intrinsic to who we are, we rarely notice that something mysterious is going on. Consciousness is experience itself, and it is therefore easy to miss the profound question staring us in the face in each moment: Why would any collection of matter in the universe be conscious?”
― Annaka Harris, Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind

“39:4.13
There is no material reward for righteous living, but there is profound satisfaction — consciousness of achievement — and this transcends any conceivable material reward.”
― Urantia Foundation, The Urantia Book