Gracjan

“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“Sorrow floats.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“Logic is relative.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”
― Noam Chomsky