"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."

“Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.”

Source : Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

“Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.”

“I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about your books than you do!”

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“youthful days are longer than those of later years, as we all learn as we grow older ...”

Source : Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

“Or maybe I’d lost my soul already. I doubted God let someone like me keep any gift from him. It was highly likely I’d been born without one.”

“I have no need to take up each thing that wants to throw its cause on us and show that it is occupied only with itself, not with us, only with its good, not with ours. Look at the rest for yourselves. Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them?”

“Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.”

“Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.”