Blaise

“Being at one is godlike and good, but human, too human, the mania
Which insists that there is only the One, one country, one truth and one way.”
― Friedrich Hölderlin, Selected Poems and Fragments

“They encounter a sick man or an old man or a corpse, and immediately they say, 'Life is refuted.' But only they themselves are refuted, and their eyes, which see only this one face of existence.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“In life like a flood, in deeds like a storm
I surge to and fro,
Up and down I flow!
Birth and the grave
An eternal wave,
Turning, returning,
A life ever burning;
At Time's whirring loom I work and play
God's living garment I weave and display.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“Whenever Northumberland appears Shakespeare allows him a noble, knightly demeanour and gives him language appropriate to it – indeed, he sometimes has very beautiful and even sublime passages to speak, since Shakespeare's practice is very far removed from that of Schiller, who likes to paint the Devil black and whose moral approval or disapproval of the characters he is drawing is audible in the words they themselves speak. In the case of Shakespeare, as also in that of Goethe, every character is, while he stands and speaks, entirely in the right, though he be the Devil himself.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms