Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.
Kazuo IshiguroMots clés family peace war idealism insight conflict harmony race enlightenment reconciliation interracial background inclusiveness liberality mongrels
Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.
James RobertsonMots clés life past future vision history mankind understanding insight prophecy
You can't do that, it makes too much sense.
Daven AndersonMots clés humor insight philosophy-of-life
When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And does anybody else, perhaps, coming along a little later, does anybody else really care? ... History is written by the survivors, but what is that history? That's the point I was trying to make just now. We don't know what the story is when we're in it, and even after we tell it we're not sure. Because the story doesn't end.
James RobertsonMots clés life perception perspective history humanity stories mankind understanding storytelling hindsight insight continuity
It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
Edith BealeMots clés insight
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
SocratesMots clés wisdom breath insight breathing breathe
Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.
Friedrich NietzscheMots clés books writers ideas insight thinkers notes drafts
It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.
Peter HøegMots clés distance understanding insight clarity detachment outsiders
Mots clés insight pity inevitability
Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.
Leo TolstoyMots clés strength perseverance insight
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