"Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply."

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Source : Isaac Thomas HECKER (1857). “Aspirations of nature”, p.24

Isaac Hecker

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“a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a â€˜functionâ€™, one cog in a machine.”

Source : Yukio Mishima, Tsunetomo Yamamoto (1977). “Yukio Mishima on Hagakure: the Samurai ethic and modern Japan”
“Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.”
“To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.”
“It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny by joining the public.”

Source : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.49, Penn State Press
“The closer to the top, the more grew in me the belief that it might be fulfilled, which most dreaming.”
“Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.”
“I could never be so lucky again”
“People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.”

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