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“It does not need to be long, because it is a leap.”
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, Philosophical Crumbs, 1844.
 
“What stops one telling the truth with a laugh, as teachers often give children biscuits.”
[“Quamquam ridentem dicere verum quid vetat? ut pueris olimdant crustula blandi doctores.”]
Horace, Satires, Book I, Satire I: On discontent, lines 24-25.
 
Rita Coolidge — We’re All Alone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvNdPewuXAQ
 
“The shadow is taken as a fickle, transient phenomenon that depends upon external circumstances, whereas the spot [of light] is considered as stable and somehow connected with the ‘substance’ of the seen object. Without discrimination between the accidental and the substantial, the transitory and the permanent, there would be no constitution of an objective reality.”
Ernst Cassirer, The Concept of Group and the Theory of Perception, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 5 (1), 1944, p. 29.
 
Friendship: Bethany. Rivalry: Aveline.
 
“Schwärmerei comes from ‘swarm’ in the precise sense in which it is used of bees.”
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Über eine zeitige Aufgabe (On a timely problem), 1776, Werke, VIII, p. 548. [True commitment differs from vacuous fervour.]
 
P!nk feat. Redman — Get the Party Started:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TteKPJ7VG48
 
Moral goodness & proper choice of career move akin to Beauty.
Dilettante revival of past creeds is neither sincere, nor fruitful.
Killing of corrupt nobles is helpful although unrelated to profit.
Aveline Orlesian & lesbian: assassin, backstabber, spy & traitor.
 
Schubert — Lebenslust (Unger), for Voices and Piano, D.609:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_zVJ2q7nBg
 
“But perhaps, my Lord, there was a further mystery in the case. Men, your Lordship knows, are wonderfully happy in a faculty of deceiving themselves, whenever they set heartily about it: and a very small foundation of any passion will serve us, not only to act it well, but even to work ourselves into it beyond our own reach. Thus, by a little affectation in love-matters, and with the help of a romance or novel, a boy of fifteen, or a grave man of fifty, may be sure to grow a very natural coxcomb, and feel the belle passion in good earnest. A man of tolerable good nature, who happens to be a little piqu’d, may, by improving his resentment, become a very fury for revenge.”
Shaftesbury, A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm (1708), in Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, and Times, Volume I, Treatise I, London, 1711, p. 3-55.
 
“Sibyls and prophets told it: You must be None but yourself, from self you cannot flee.”
[“So mußt du sein, dir kannst du nicht entfliehen, So sagtenschon Sibyllen, so propheten.”]
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Urworte. Orphisch (Primal Words.Orphic), 1817: DAIMoN, Daemon.