Dan Browne

“You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose... That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

“Classification is a condition of knowledge, not knowledge itself, and knowledge in turn dissolves classification.”
― Adorno and Horkheimer

“Mythological thinking cannot be superseded, because it forms the framework and context for all thinking”
― Northrop Frye

“The word ‘wrong’ originally meant wrung, twisted. ‘Abstract’ means to pull away from. ‘Human’ meant the soil (humus). ‘Consider’ meant known, con, the stars, sidera. All our abstract words were once metaphors. The boldness of metaphor is a result of limited vocabulary… As language became less crude it became less beautiful, more refined, more abstract—and metaphor became either impossible or ornamental and unnecessary, except in rare instances.”
― Tom Dilworth