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„Feste sind dazu da, die Zukunft zu vergessen. Der Augenblick ist das Leben.“

„Great art is a small break from human despair,“

“He liked Batman best: ‘I wear a mask. And that mask, it’s not to hide who I am, but to create who I am.’ ”

“If there is nothing but what we make in this world, brothers, let us make good.”

“Death is public but dying is private, the very last private thing we have,”

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

„Because in an ugly place, he was born with so much beauty inside him that it was like an act of rebellion. In a world full of sledgehammers, his art was a declaration of war.“

“The first something out of the nothing was the awareness of pain, an agony that was everything.”

“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self.”

“…you may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.”

„Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.”

“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”

„Eine gute Faustregel lautet: ‚Die Biologie erlaubt, die Kultur verbietet.‘ Die Biologie lässt eine große Bandbreite an Möglichkeiten zu. Die Kultur zwingt ihre Angehörigen dagegen, sich für eine kleine Auswahl dieser Möglichkeiten zu entscheiden. Die Biologie gibt Frauen die Möglichkeit, Kinder zu bekommen - und die Kultur zwingt die Frauen dazu, diese Möglichkeit wahrzunehmen…“

“Eines der ehernen Gesetze der Geschichte lautet, dass ein Luxus schnell zur Notwendigkeit wird und neue Zwänge schafft. Sobald wir uns an einen Luxus gewöhnt haben, verkommt er zur Selbstverständlichkeit. Erst wollen wir nicht mehr ohne ihn leben, und irgendwen können wir es nicht mehr.“

„And people talk about [love] all the time like it’s, you know, something real, something you can touch - like when we talk about love, we’re all talking about same thing. But we’re not, are we?”

„Mut bedeutet nicht, keine Angst zu haben. Mut heißt, trotz der Angst voranzugehen.“

„A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day!”

„Dissonance before moments of harmony makes the harmony sound beautiful. Just as harmony and dissonance exist side by side in music, life is the same. Because harmony is preceded by dissonance, that’s why we think life is beautiful.”

“Solitude sets us free, just as loneliness brings depth to our lives.”

„Man muss ein paar Raupen aushalten, wenn man die Schmetterlinge kennenlernen will.”

„The patriarchy puts women in a box. And then it puts men in their own box on top of that one. And on some level, men think that qualifies as a win. But at the end of the day, everyone’s still trapped in a box.”

„the last clear definite function of man - muscles aching to work, m mines aching to create beyond the single need - this is man.“

„Das Fliegen und das Fallen sind in der Kreativität Geschwister.“

„[…] ich glaube, es gibt eine Magie in der Welt, die über das hinausgeht, was wir sehen können. Sie liegt in der Art, wie wir verbunden sind. In den Geschichten, die wir uns erzählen, und in den Träumen, die wir haben. Egal, ob es magische Kreaturen gibt oder nicht. Ich glaube, es wird immer etwas Magie in unserem Leben geben, solange wir uns den Sinn für Wunder und Fantasie bewahren.“

„…give her a simple funeral […] She would turn into smoke, rise up into the sky, and mix with clouds. Then she would come down to earth again as rain, and nurture some nameless patch of grass with no story to tell.”

„Time itself was uniform in composition, but once consumed, it took on a deformed shape. One period of time might be terribly heavy and long, while another could be light and short.“

In particular, experiments tend to be done on subjects that are considered WEIRD, an acronym that stands for Western, Educated and from Industrialised Rich Democracies.