There is at bottom only one problem in the world...
How does one break through?
How does one get into the open?
How does one burst the cocoon and become a butterfly?
- Thomas Mann, Dr. Faustus
We did not come to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves like the trees,
The trees that are broken
And start again, drawing up from the great roots.
- Robert Bly
One thing I would fight for to the end, both in word and deed if I were able - that if we believed that we must try to find out what is not known, we should be better and braver and less idle than if we believed that what we do not know it is impossible to find out and that we need not even try.
- Socrates, The Meno
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists in a series of footnotes to Plato.
- Alfred North Whitehead
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.
-P.J. O’Rourke
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