Mauricio

“Too often it is said that there is no absolute truth, but only opinion and private judgment; that each of us is conditioned, in his view of the world, by his own peculiarities, his own taste and bias; that there is no external kingdom of truth to which, by patience and discipline, we may at last obtain admittance, but only truth for me, for you, for every separate person. By this habit of mind one of the chief ends of human effort is denied, and the supreme virtue of candour, of fearless acknowledgment of what is, disappears from our moral vision. Of such scepticism mathematics is a perpetual reproof;”
― Bertrand Russell, The Bertrand Russell Collection

“Love is the fire that purifies and unifies intellect, will, and emotion, thereby making man one with himself, inasmuch as it makes him one in God’s eyes.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration

“There has been more error propagated from the press in the last ten years than in a hundred years before,’ was the jaundiced judgement of John Adams, second president of the United States, and a frequent victim of press vituperation and ridicule.9”
― Andrew Pettegree, The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself

“«¿Qué día es hoy?» Aureliano le contestó que era martes. «Eso mismo pensaba yo», dijo José Arcadio Buendía. «Pero de pronto me he dado cuenta de que sigue siendo lunes como ayer. Mira el cielo, mira las paredes, mira las begonias. También hoy es lunes.»”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad