Sotiria

“Όταν διαβάζει κανείς μόνο και μόνο για να περάσει την ώρα του είναι σα να σεργιανά με τα μάτια κλειστά σε ένα πανέμορφο τοπίο. Πέρα από αυτό όμως, το διάβασμα δεν είναι ούτε για να ξεχνιόμαστε ούτε για να ξεχνάμε την καθημερινότητα, αλλά για να αποκτήσουμε γνώση του εαυτού μας και να μπορέσουμε να πάρουμε οι ίδιοι στα χέρια μας την τύχη μας με αυξημένη συνείδηση και ωριμότητα.”
― Hermann Hesse

“Turning I would to I did is the grammar of growing up.”
― Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno

“Τα βιβλία είναι καθρέφτες. Βλέπεις μέσα τους μόνο αυτά που ήδη έχεις μέσα σου.”
― Zafon Carlos Ruiz

“The great milestones of civilization always have the whiff of utopia about them at first. According to renowned sociologist Albert Hirschman, utopias are initially attacked on three grounds: futility (it’s not possible), danger (the risks are too great), and perversity (it will degenerate into dystopia). But Hirschman also wrote that almost as soon as a utopia becomes a reality, it often comes to be seen as utterly commonplace. Not so very long ago, democracy still seemed a glorious utopia. Many a great mind, from the philosopher Plato (427–347 B.C.) to the statesman Edmund Burke (1729–97), warned that democracy was futile (the masses were too foolish to handle it), dangerous (majority rule would be akin to playing with fire), and perverse (the “general interest” would soon be corrupted by the interests of some crafty general or other). Compare this with the arguments against basic income. It’s supposedly futile because we can’t pay for it, dangerous because people would quit working, and perverse because ultimately a minority would end up having to toil harder to support the majority.”
― Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There – from the presenter of the 2025 BBC ‘Moral Revolution’ Reith lectures