"Don't give up your dreams."

“The self is not a thing, but a process.”

Source : Thomas Metzinger (2010). “The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self”, p.208, Basic Books

“Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (1837). “Sermons”

“I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country.”

“In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power to resist falsehood and live in the light of truth, not by external norms but by reasoned and reflective self-determination. The inward teacher is the living core of our lives that is addressed and evoked by any education worthy of the name.”

“I don't get what's happening to Jose Mourinho of late. He's lapsing into the kind of Portuguese moroseness you get from staring at the Atlantic horizon and imagining you're the last place in the world, while listening to endless renditions of the fado. His latest line about 'everyone hates us and we don't care' sounds like vintage Joe Kinnear in the great days of the Wimbledon Crazy Gang.”

“It is a new intoxication - annihilation. It multiplies every emotion.”

Source : Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer (2016). “When Worlds Collide”, p.97, Macmillan

“Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.”

“That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.”