Humility is considered a ‘supreme virtue’ of Western civilization and is therefore implicated in ethos

as a component of high moral character. ~ Lahey, in: Gavins et al., 2016: 45

‘Sympathy’ can be understood as feeling for someone and ‘empathy’ as feeling with someone. ~
Marszalek, in: Gavins et al., 2016:213

Today’s false belief is often yesterday’s certain knowledge. ~ Unknown

Know Thyself ~ Oracle of Delphi

Prejudice always obscures the truth. ~ Henry Fonda as Juror 8 in 12 Angry Man

Culture is a contact with the best which has been thought and said in the world ~Matthew Arnold in
Culture and Anarchy 1869/1909

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein in Tractatus Logico-
Philosophicus

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for
making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.”

Oscar Wilde in Life as Art

- You get poetic justice in three hours. You don’t get poetic justice in a whole lifetime
sometimes. – about what makes stories so interesting.
- What are Facebook and other social media but adverts for how we’d like to be seen?

in Yorke – Into the Woods

We are animals first, to become humans only thereafter.

~Bartosz Dudek xD

don't set yourself on fire to keep others warm

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?
C.S. Lewis

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Mark Twain

The world breaks everyone, and after, many are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

… in life, people talk, although it is understood that most of the time, nothing important is said, or at least
nothing essential.

Thierry Groensteen in The System of Comics

God is no wise a safety net for the blind. He’s not someone to be commanded to peform magic tricks, or
forced into Self-relvelation – not even by His own Son.
~ Jordan Peterson in An Antidote to Chaos