Hervey Yonathan

“The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.”
― Noam Chomsky

“The result is that much reading robs the mind of all elasticity, as the continual pressure of a weight does a spring, and that the surest way of never having any thoughts of your own is to pick up a book every time you have a free moment. The practice of doing this is the reason erudition makes most men duller and sillier than they are by nature and robs their writings of all effectiveness: they are in Pope's words: For ever reading, never to be read.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“But if you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the earth. And this is the voice of the earth.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“Uns fumam,outros bebem, outros se drogam e outros se apaixonam. Cada um se mata à sua maneira”
― Renato Russo