“People need to be reminded more than they need to be instructed”
— Samuel Johnson

“It is good that the window is transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. What if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to ‘see through’ everything, then everything is transparent. A wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To ‘see through’ all things is the same as not to see.”
— C.S. Lewis

“In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets…”
— C.S. Lewis

“The boundary of an organism is defined by cooperation”
— Levin Fields

“When you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.”
— A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein

“On the way from mythology to logistics, thought has lost the element of self-reflection, and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.”
— Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer (1944)

“My life has been spent in the research of truth. Childhood still seems to me an inexhaustible source of revelations and, let me say, of hope.”
— Maria Montessori (1947)