„When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.“

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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„The will for victory which gives a commander the strength to see a grave crisis through is something very different from Hitler's will, which in the last analysis stemmed from a belief in his own 'mission'.  Such a belief makes a man impervious to reason and leads him to think that his own will can operate even beyond the limits of hard reality - whether these consist in the presence of far superior enemy forces, in the conditions of space and time, or merely in the fact that the enemy also happens to have a will of his own.“
— Erich von Manstein
„Really, there is no wrong. Not in our minds. Our own reality.“
— Chuck Palahniuk