“The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.”

— Michel De Montaigne

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(1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, … 1533–1592

Ivar Ekeland (1944) French mathematician

Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 2, The Birth of Modern Science, p. 34.

“All progress, from primitive savagedom to modern civilisation, will… appear as consisting in the progressive socialisation of the lower functions, the stoppage of lower forms of competition and of the education of the more brutal qualities, in order that a larger and larger proportion of individual activity may be engaged in the exercise of higher functions, the practice of competition upon higher planes, and the education of higher forms of fitness.”

J.A. Hobson (1858–1940) English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism

section 11, p. 420
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906), Ch. XVII Civilisation and Industrial Development

“One thing that is important is that, if you have a choice between a lower valuation with someone you really like, or higher valuation with someone you have a question mark about, take the lower valuation.”

Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur

During an interview with PandoDaily - Fireside Chat With Elon Musk - Jul, 17th 2012

“Yeah manmade power
Stood like a tower
Higher Higher, Hello
And the higher you go
you feel lower, oh
I was close to the edge
Staying undercover, staying undercover
And with my nose to the ground
I found my Sound”

M.I.A. (1975) British recording artist, songwriter, painter and director

Born Free
Lyrics, /\/\ /\ Y /\ (2010)

“Everybody says there is this world and the coming world. Behold, here is the coming world -- we believe that the coming world exists; perhaps this world also exists in some place, because here it looks like hell, for everybody is full of great afflictions all the time (and he said that this world does not exist at all). — Likutei Moharan II 119”

Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810) Ukrainian rabbi

Hakol omrim sh'yesh olam hazeh v'olam haba. V'hine, ba'olam habah anu ma'aminim sh'yeshno, efshar sh'yesh olam hazeh b'eize olam, ki kan nir'a sh'hu ha'geheinom, ki kulam m'le'im yisurim gedolim tamid, v'amar she'ein nimtza shum olam hazeh klal.
אין שום יאוש בעולם כלל
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“There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

Armies of the Night (1968)

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.
In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“There is a law higher than men can make. The facts as they exist in this poor world -- the absolute consequences of certain acts -- they are above all. And this higher law is the breath of progress, the very outstretched wings of civilization, under which we enjoy the freedom we have.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: There is a law higher than men can make. The facts as they exist in this poor world -- the absolute consequences of certain acts -- they are above all. And this higher law is the breath of progress, the very outstretched wings of civilization, under which we enjoy the freedom we have. Keep that in your minds. There never was a legislature great enough -- there never was a constitution sacred enough, to compel a civilized man to stand between a black man and his liberty. There never was a constitution great enough to make me stand between any human being and his right to express his honest thoughts. Such a constitution is an insult to the human soul, and I would care no more for it than I would for the growl of a wild beast.

“We will kill in ourselves a world in order to build another, a higher one reaching to the heavens.”

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899–1938) Romanian politician

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Religion

“You worry that if you lower your guard, even for one second, your whole world will disintegrate into chaos.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.”

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