Tika

“The general public long ago stopped looking for beauty in high culture. But it still has TV and the movies....you are far more likely to find genuinely mesmerising images and real beauty in big-budget Hollywood movies -- think of, say, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar or his Dark Knight Trilogy -- than in any European art-house”
― Sohrab Ahmari, The New Philistines

“It is the Other whom one must love as oneself if one does not desire to idolize and hate the Other in the depths of the underground.”
― René Girard, Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky

“This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics.”
― Denis de Rougemont, Love in the Western World

“It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself,”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West