Maccabean Dynasty Quotes & Sayings

Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of. — Yasmina Khadra

I hate going into a room with people in it and the feeling of them staring. I find every moment excruciating. — Kate Dickie

To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Piaget's third way (i.e., alternative to empiricism and nativism) is that knowledge develops through the child's actions on the world. In addition, knowledge is always tied to a particular framework (see Chapter 3, this volume), a paradigm case of which are the structures that emerge as any knowing subject interacts with the world. — Ulrich Muller

I'm basically depressive, cynical, prone to intellectualization. — Paul Schrader