Furfur

“Analysis, whether economic or other, never yields more than a statement about the tendencies present in an observable pattern. And these never tell us what will happen to the pattern but only what would happen if they continued to act as they have been acting in the time interval covered by our observation and if no other factors intruded. “Inevitability” or “necessity” can never mean more than this.”
― Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

“To acquire a world of his own, the profane man has desacralized the world in which his ancestors lived; but to do so he has been obliged to adopt
the opposite of an earlier type of behavior, and that behavior is still emotionally present to him, in one form or another, ready to be reactualized in his deepest being,”
― Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

“Engineering is a profession that can do the job of almost all other professions.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“life cannot be repaired, it can only be recreated through symbolic repetition of the cosmogony”
― Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion