To find salvation in God, or in whatever figure of transcendence one might wish to put in his place, means to ‘declare war on life, on nature, on the will to live!

— Luc Ferry, A Brief History of Thought

Ministry of Defense is more respectable than Ministry of War. It implies we’re reacting to aggression whenever we engage in combat.

— Ali Almossawi and Alejandro Giraldo, An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language

A man of the Classical Age who had to live in medieval times would suffocate miserably just as a savage does in the midst of our civilisation.

— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

The only way to remain a long-term leader of a genuinely successful company is to continually create space for others to take the recognition, reward, and work that got you to where you’re currently sitting.

— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer

The disagreements dividing Protestants from Catholics were about the internal consistency of the magical rules within their common fantasy scheme.

— Kurt Andersen, Fantasyland