Matt G

“In those days I learned the name Hesperides, and it was from these things that I unconsciously built up the vague fragments of a religion and of a philosophy, which remained hidden and implicit in my acts, and which, in due time, were to assert themselves in a deep and all-embracing attachment to my own judgment and my own will and a constant turning away from subjection, towards the freedom of my own ever-changing horizons.”
― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

“What did the Aztec population understand when the first Franciscan missionaries spoke to them? How have women heard a gospel preached mostly by men?”
― justo L. González, The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day

“there was one place they could generate a field without fail—the ground beneath their feet. Otherwise, the hundred-meter-tall giants wouldn’t have been able to walk across any stretch of ground—no matter how well engineered or fortified—without sinking.

That might sound too convenient to be plausible, but former Nerv executives had taken the phenomenon very seriously, and they’d left their records behind for the current staff.

The limits of the human form—

Humans cannot escape the ground. We are destined to crawl around in the dirt forever—to smear ourselves with it.

According to them, this quirk of the A.T. Fields was proof of our fate.

At the time, Asuka had said, “Duh, isn’t that obvious?”
― Ikuto Yamashita, Neon Genesis Evangelion: Anima, Vol. 1

“The Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu conjectured that you cannot grow until you confront the void within.”
― Michelle LeClair, Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love