"You are God and I am free; each of us is alone, and our anguish is akin" (Sartre 1989 [1943]: 119)

"Your vaunted freedom isolates you from the fold; it means exile." (Sartre 1989 [1943]: 118)

"Ako Sarajevo umre, onda je ugasnula Evropa u slobodi i pravednosti, u ethosu multikulturalizma i pluralizma" (Sharchevic 2007: 14)

"Da usprkos dosadashnjem iskustvu, put do otvorene, univerzalne, tolerantne Evrope, prolazi kroz Sarajevo, kroz obuhvachanje politichke i etichke osnove ljudskog egzistiranja. Ako Sarajevo umre, onda je ugasnula Evropa u slobodi i pravednosti, u ethosu multikulturalizma i pluralizma.

Dovoljno je otvoriti ochi - i istina se pojavljuje u dubljim znachenjima. Samo to su, u svakom sluchaju, nepodnoshljive istine - sa ponorima, neizvjesnostima, predstavljivostima [...]

Na zhalost, desilo se da su taj krajolik lijepog [Bosnu] koje je blizhe istini od svega drugog, taj krajolik evropskog duha, tolerancije i koegzistencije, da su ga, ipak, neochekivano, naposljetku, slike preplavile i opustoshile. Dovoljno je rechi: mitologijske, nacionalne, politichke opsjene, koje teshko, na zhalost, zastare."


Evropska Kultura i Duhovne Znanosti, Sharchevich, A, 2007

"[...] it sounds much like an excuse, this freedom whose slave you claim to be." (Sartre 1989 [1943]: 117)

"How can a man arrive at self-knowledge? Through contemplation? Certainly not; rather, by action." (Goethe 1829)

"I shall never sleep again. But then - how shall I endure my own company?" (Sartre 1989 [1944]: 06)

"That's how things always are with us - the cart before the horse" (Tolstoj 1957 [1869] vol II: 1183)

"... Ge mig en paus / Fyll mig med tystnad nu..." (Berg 1998)

"Before I disappear/Whisper in my ear/Give me something to echo/In my unknown futures ear" (Vedder 2009)

"To myself I... surrender, to the one I'll never please" (Vedder 2002)

"Slow down everyone you're moving too fast, frames can't catch you when you're moving like that" (Johnson 2001)

"[...] the fairytale is a form of 'whishful thinking'" (Crapanzano1980: 6)

"They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got." (Conrad 1990 [1902]: 4)

"[...] your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea - something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to..."

by Joseph Conrad
in Heart of Darkness 1990 (1902): 4

"We have to imagine and to build up what we could be to get rid of political 'double bind'[...]" (Foucault 1982: 785)

We have to imagine and to build up what we could be to get rid of political "double bind", which is the simultaneous individualization and totalization of modern power structures.
The conclusion would be that the political, ethical, social, philosophical problem of our days is not to try to liberate the individual from the state and from state's institutions but to liberate us both from the state and from the type of individualization which is linked to the state. We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of this kind of individuality which has been imposed on us for several centuries.

Excerpt from "The Subject and Power" by Michel Foucault, published in Critical Inquiry, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Summer, 1982), pp. 777-795, The University of Chicago Press

"Think what would make the world worse off: to find itself without bankers or without poets", (Gramsci 2007 [1975]: 235, quoting Manzoni)

"Drought makes the workers dream", (Patton 1992)

"Stockholm ligger öde och världen håller andan", (Berg 2002)

"A man must judge his labours by the obstacles he has overcome and the hardships he has endured", (Evans-Pritchard, E. E., 1940: 9)

"[F]riends [...] must be mutually recognized as bearing goodwill and wishing well to each other", (Aristotle)

"[...] that which is good without qualification is also without qualification pleasant, and these are the most lovable qualities [...] such friendship requires time and familiarity; as the proverb says, men cannot know each other till they have 'eaten salt together'; nor can they admit each other to friendship or be friends till each has been found lovable and been trusted by each. Those who quickly show the marks of friendship to each other wish to be friends, but are not friends unless they both are lovable and know the fact; for a wish for friendship may arise quickly, but friendship does not."



From "Nichomachean ethics", Book VIII, Chapter 2, p. 1060 in The Basic Works of Aristotle, edited by Richard McKeon (Random House, New York, 1941).

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"You are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being", (Agrado in "All About My Mother" by Pedro Almodovar 1999)