Their wider scope,
Limitless Empire o’er the world of thought,
Help my desires to press
Beyond all stars toward God and Heaven and Hope;
And in the world-amazing chase is wrought
Somehow — all Happiness.
Aleister Crowley, “Dreams” in Mysteries
One must develop a certain obliquity of conscience, an elastic attitude toward the truth, to be effective in diplomacy.
Trevanian, Shibumi: A Novel [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humanity; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountainhead.
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
During the act of procreation, the force that bonds two people together escaping solitude is in essence a trait that exists in each person, a madness which is imbued with a grief that slowly draws toward the depths of death.
Sadegh Hedayat, trans. Naveed Noori, The Blind Owl [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience [Bookshop, Amazon]
The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping from your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you toward the future.
Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
