Ben De Bono

“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

“At least, Sancho, I want, because it is necessary, I say I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add, and I assure you that you will not recount as many as I intend to perform.” “For the love of God, Señor, don’t let me see your grace naked, for that will make me feel so bad I won’t be able to stop crying,”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“We see our lives from our own point of view; that is the privilege of the weakest and humblest of us;”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady