"If we want to stop forces from transforming themselves the moment we turn our back, we should avoid turning our back!" (Latour 1993 [1984]: 199)

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"Every man has within his own reminiscences certain things he doesn't reveal to anyone [...]" (Dostoevsky 2001[1863]: 28)

"[...] except, perhaps, to his friends. There are also some that he won't reveal even to his friends, only to himself perhaps, and even then, in secret. Finally, there are some which a man is afraid to reveal even to himself; every decent man has accumulated a fair number of such things. In fact, it can even be said that the more decent the man, the more of these things he's accumulated."

From Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Query: How contrive not to waste ones time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while" (Camus 2004[1947]: 26)

"Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting room; by remaining on one's balcony all a Sunday afternoon; by listening to a lecture in a language one doesn't know; by travelling by the longest and least convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by queueing at the box-office of theatres and then not booking a seat. And so forth" (Camus 2004[1947]: 26)

"[...] revolution's not a question of virtue but of effectiveness." (Sartre 1989[1948]: 229)

""We shall not abolish lying by refusing to tell lies, but by using every means at hand to abolish classes" (Sartre 1989 [1948]: 218)

HUGO: I never lie to my comrades. I - Why should you fight for the liberation of men, if you think no more of them than to stuff their heads with falsehoods?

HOEDERER: I'll lie when I must, and I have contempt for noone. I wasn't the one who invented lying. It grew out of a society divided into classes, and each one of us has inherited it from birth. We shall not abolish lying by refusing to tell lies, but by using every means at hand to abolish classes.

"Human life begins on the far side of despair" (Sartre 1989 [1943]: 119)

"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