„I know how unfashionable it is now to acknowledge in life or history any genius loftier than ourselves.“

— Will Durant

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„I know how unfashionable it is now to acknowledge in life or history any genius loftier than ourselves. Our democratic dogma has leveled not only all voters but all leaders; we delight to show that living geniuses are only mediocrities, and that dead ones are myths. … Since it is contrary to good manners to exalt ourselves, we achieve the same result by slyly indicating how inferior are the great men of the earth. In some of us, perhaps, it is a noble and merciless asceticism, which would root out of our hearts the last vestige of worship and adoration, lest the old gods should return and terrify us again. For my part, I cling to this final religion, and discover in it a content and stimulus more lasting than came from the devotional ecstasies of youth.“
— Will Durant
„I suppose I am still a believer in the now unfashionable "heroic" school, which says that history is shaped by individual men and women and the choices that they make, by deeds glorious and terrible.“
— George Raymond Richard Martin
„Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.“
— Joseph Campbell
„There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.“
— Ram Dass
„We begin to wonder if it is due to the fact that we don't know enough. But it can't be that. Because in terms of accumulated knowledge we know more today than men have known in any period of human history. We have the facts at our disposal. We know more about mathematics, about science, about social science, and philosophy than we've ever known in any period of the world's history. So it can't be because we don't know enough. And then we wonder if it is due to the fact that our scientific genius lags behind. That is, if we have not made enough progress scientifically. Well then, it can't be that. For our scientific progress over the past years has been amazing.“
— Jr.
„No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„We are about to change history, said Saphira.We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is.Ah, but what a glorious flight!(Eragon to Saphira)“
— Christopher Paolini