#realisation

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period. ↗

— Kim Y. Sam

#blood #freedom #nations #period #post-war

Nevertheless, this is where it begins. The first word appears only at a moment when nothing can be explained anymore, at some instant of experience that defies all sense. To be reduced to saying nothing. Or else, to say himself: this is what haunts me. And then to realize, almost in the same breath, that this is what he haunts. ↗

— Paul Auster

#realisation #experience

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#atonement #equally #eternal #every #fault

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#eureka #feeling #little #little things #moments