Richard

“Samuel Clemens put it: "Where she was, there was Eden." Omar phrased it: "-thou beside me in the wilderness, ah wilderness were paradise enow." Browning termed it "Summum Bonum." All were asserting the same great truth, which is for me: Heaven is where Margrethe is.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Job: A Comedy of Justice

“And indeed, just think: in many ways, body and soul, I have been more a battlefield than a human being.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“No man has the right to rule over another man, otherwise such a right necessarily, and immediately becomes the right of the strongest. As the tiger in the jungle rules over the defenceless antelope, so on the banks of the Nile a Pharaoh ruled over the progenitors of the fellaheen of Egypt. Nor can a group of men, by contract, from their own right, compel you to obey a fellow-man. What binding force is there for me in the allegation that ages ago one of my progenitors made a ‘Contrat Social,’ with other men of that time? As man I stand free and bold, over against the most powerful of my fellow-men. I do not speak of the family, for here organic, natural ties rule; but in the sphere of the State I do not yield or bow down to anyone, who is man, as I am.”
― Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism

“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed