"It would not be better if things..." - Quote by Heraclitus

“Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.”

“Bigotry is the sacred disease.”

“We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.”

“We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.”

“But boys and girls, pale from the imagined loveOf solitary beds, knew what they were,That passion could bring character enoughAnd pressed at midnighht in some public placeLive lips upon a plummet-measured face.”

“Everyone wants to be an overcomer, but nobody wants anything to overcome.”

“Few people have the imagination for reality.”

“I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?”

“Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.”