Wer sich selbst belügt und an seine eigene Lüge glaubt, der kann zuletzt keine Wahrheit mehr unterscheiden, weder in sich noch um sich herum.
Aus „Die Brüder Karamasow“ von Fjodor Dostojewski
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„Your pier-glass or extensive surface of polished steel made to be rubbed by a housemaid, will be minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions; but place now against it a lighted candle as a center of illumination, and lo! the scratches will seem to arrange themselves in a fine series of concentric circles round that little sun. It is demonstrable that the scratches are going everywhere impartially and it is only your candle which produces the flattering illusion of a concentric arrangement, its light falling with an exclusive optical selection. These things are a parable. The scratches are events, and the candle is the egoism of any person…“
From „Middlemarch“ by George Eliot
„We can learn much from the mythologies of earlier peoples if we have the humility to respect ways of thought widely differing from our own. In certain respects we may be far cleverer than they, but not necessarily wiser.“
from „Gods and Myths of Northern Europe“ by Hilda Ellis Davidson
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‚my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
Isaac Asimov
„Wenn das, was man macht, für einen Berufung ist, dann gibt’s das Thema Work-Life-Balance nicht so.“
Rafael Laguna de la Vera, CEO
„On est toujours pressé d’être heureux, […] car lorsqu’on a souffert longtemps on a grand-peine à croire au bonheur.“
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
„Wohin gehen die Träume der Menschen, wenn niemand mehr träumt?“
Aus „Was Augen hat und Ohren“ von Ursula Wiegele
„Ich schätze, ein kleines bisschen verrückt muss man schon sein, um die wirklich guten Geschichten zu schreiben.“
Jasmin I. Müller
„History teaches, but has no pupils.“
Antonio Gramsci, Schriftsteller
Jasmin i. Müller 