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for all its brutality, the central ideology of Roman imperialism was not one of cultural, ethnic or racial exclusivity. Quite the opposite – the mixing of culture and the mixing of peoples was a founding tenet of the Roman state. Indeed, ...more
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Arthur Machen
“We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.”
― Arthur Machen, The Terror

Werner Heisenberg
“Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.”
― Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg
“In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of the world. Although I an now convinced that scientific truth is unassailable in its own field, I have never found it possible to dismiss the content of religious thinking as simply part of an outmoded phase in the consciousness of mankind, a part we shall have to give up from now on, Thus in the course of my life I have repeatedly been compelled to ponder on the relationship of these two regions of though, for I have never been able to doubt the reality of that to which they point.”
― Werner Heisenberg

Ben Okri
“One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road

Iain Banks
“Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.”
― Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

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