Ben De Bono

“he who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“I am doing things … ,’ replied Raskolnikov, reluctantly and sternly. ‘Like what?’ ‘Work …’ ‘What work?’ ‘Thinking,’ he said seriously, after a pause.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“There is an Is."  That is as much monkish credulity as St. Thomas asks of us at the start. Very few unbelievers start by asking us to believe so little. And yet, upon this sharp pin-point of reality, he rears by long logical processes that have never really been successfully overthrown, the whole cosmic system of Christendom.”
― G.K. Chesterton, St. Thomas Aquinas

“Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses: Complete Text with Integrated Study Guide from Shmoop