Markus

“My books are friends that never fail me."

(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)”
― Thomas Carlyle

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic

“The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.”
― Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
― Plato