Stephen

“The process of living seems to consist of coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. They cannot sound otherwise to those who have not had the relevant experience; that is why there is no teaching of such truths possible and every generation starts from scratch.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters of C. S. Lewis

“I fear for your future, Kira,' said Victor. 'It's time to get reconciled to life. You won't get far with those ideas of yours.'
'That,' said Kira, 'depends on what direction I want to go.”
― Ayn Rand, We the Living

“We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which furious party cries will be raised against anybody who says that cows have horns, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening mob with the news that grass is green.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Of Avonlea