Habits Quote by Timothy Snyder

“The seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures”

— Timothy Snyder

“The seduction by a mythicized pas prevents us from thinking about possible futures”

— Timothy Snyder

“And the self concern which is our torment, whether we know it or not, must find an antidote when we let our imagination stray…

— Julie Summers

“This was not to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some greater change, that she did not experience some of…

— Marcel Proust

“I detest that fatuity of mind which believes that what is explained is also excused; I hate that vanity which finds it interesting to…

— Benjamin Constant

“When blame and self-judgement are transformed, healed, and cease to be, we have reawakened without the myth, the mythos, of separation. We are One.”

— Wendy E. Slater

“After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, Guides us by vanities.…

— T.S. Eliot

“For all that exists in man, whether good or evil, is rendered conspicuous by the presence of great danger. His inmost feelings are roused…

— Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker

“The truly self-possessed, however, are free from the whims of fate and chance. Calmly, they affect their will, and with strength of character and…

— James Allen

“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most…

— Thomas Keneally

“Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt…

— Gregory Maguire

“...we go through life with a generalized sense that everybody is wrong except us. And since we don't just forget things because they don't…

— Philip Roth