"One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate."

-- Rocco Buttiglione

#Inspiration Quotes #Hierarchy Quotes #Needs Quotes

“In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends in sterilized sobriety is the only and ultimate real one â€“ yet a mind living in sin with the soul of Abraham. Thus he knows Two things at once, and both with equal assurance: that there is no God, and that there must be God.”

Source : Erich Heller (1975). “Franz Kafka”, Viking Pr
“I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.”
“It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.”

Source : Mat Johnson (2011). “Pym: A Novel”, p.138, Spiegel & Grau
“I need to remember to overcome.”
“REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.”
“I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow...it is the honest state before the apple.”
“I've seen it [Australia] go from a lot of small towns to big towns, but I think it has found its identity in all this time... it's a very special country, I could easily live here.”
“Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.”

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