"The truth is always an abyss. One must â€” as in a swimming pool â€” dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again â€” laughing and fighting for breath â€” to the now doubly illuminated surface of things."

-- Franz Kafka

#Fighting Quotes #Swimming Quotes #Order Quotes

“Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.”

Source : Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee (2016). “Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century”, p.67, Ballantine Books
“The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one and it would not be a wasted life.”
“Everybody is somebody's Jew. And today the Palestinians are the Jews of the Israelis.”

Source : "A strike against silence" by Antony Lerman, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2009.
“I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.”
“The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.”
“Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.”
“In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.”

Source : "The Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius, (Ch. 28), 121 AD.
“A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.”

Source : "Michael Moore Wisconsin Speech: America Is Not Broke" by Michael Moore, www.thedailybeast.com. March 7, 2011.

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