Demokratia Suomi Quotes & Sayings

No one can read two thousand books. In the four hundred years I have lived, I've not read more than half a dozen — Jorge Luis Borges

Here are experiences which one cannot survive, after which one feels that there is no meaning left in anything. Once you have reached the limits of life, having lived to extremity all that is offered at those dangerous borders, the everyday gesture and the usual aspiration lose their seductive charm. If you go on living, you do so only through your capacity for objectification, your ability to free yourself, in writing, from the infinite strain. Creativity is a temporary salvation from the claws of death — Emil Cioran

How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's existence is demonstrated by way of subjection and submissiveness. Do you want to try and demonstrate that the king exists? Will you do so by offering a string of proofs, a series of arguments? No. If you are serious, you will demonstrate the king's existence by your submission, by the way you live. And so it is with demonstrating God's existence. It is accomplished not by proofs but by worship. Any other way is but a thinker's pious bungling. — Soren Kierkegaard

He vainly said that human will is free, — Voltaire

China is very concerned about the Iranian nuclear issue. — Li Zhaoxing

If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism. — Terry Eagleton

she was certain he didn't know how the deep scars that marred his soul were reflecting on his body, like a silent scream for help. — Noa Xireau

Everyone is king, when there's no one left to pawn — Black Rebel Motorcycle Club