The Magnus Archives: Season 4
Jonathan Sims
Top 10 Best Quotes
“What good’s being alone if you don’t know how alone you truly are?”
“There is nothing in the world more reassuring than ignorance, which we can mistake for certainty.”
“The more I listen, the more it seems to me we’re all just – groping about, trying desperately to find out what we’re actually meant to be doing.”
“Some of the smartest people there were also the most committed. Intelligence doesn’t make you less prone to taking on bad ideas, it just makes you better at defending them to other people and to yourself. Smart people can believe some truly ridiculous things, and then deploy all the reason and logic at their disposal to justify them, because a belief doesn’t begin in your mind. It begins in your feelings.”
“Free of what? We all have forces that drive us, circumstances that direct us, and even if we choose to ignore these and act against all logic, just to prove that we can – is that not simply allowing the existential terror of our own powerlessness to control us instead?”
“Bodies are strange. Rather glad they're not my concern anymore." "Must be nice." "It really is.”
“Well, sometimes the helping people hurts. Sure, but that doesn’t mean everything painful helps.”
“Right, well. If I’m just another cog, maybe I can’t leave the machine, but from this moment I’m not turning. I’m jammed.”
“Nice to see Gertrude also used to get a lot of threats. So far, it doesn’t seem that any of them went desperately well, except for Elias, of course, but he didn’t threaten, did he, just...did it.”
“Jumping on a grenade is only heroic if you weren’t the one who actually threw it.”
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