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“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Our most sacred convictions, those which are permanent in us concerning the highest values, are judgments emanating from our muscles.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

“Never trust a thought that occurs to you indoors.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Only a god can save us.”
― Martin Heidegger

“Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.”
― Martin Heidegger, Letter on Humanism

“Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.”
― Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays

“We never come to thoughts. They come to us.”
― Martin Heidegger, What is Called Thinking?

“Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god's withdrawal.”
― Martin Heidegger, What is Called Thinking?

“and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.”
― Martin Heidegger

“Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
― Meister Eckhart, Sermons of Meister Eckhart

“The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.”
― Martin Heidegger, Ponderings II-VI: Black Notebooks 1931-1938

“The idolizers of "facts" never realize that their idols shine only in a borrowed light. They are indeed not supposed to realize that, for it would immediately make them perplexed and, accordingly, useless. But idolizers and idols are used only when the gods are absconding and so are announcing their nearness.”
― Martin Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event)

“When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.”
― Martin Heidegger, What is Called Thinking?

“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

“Where I will nothing for myself, there wills instead my God.”
― Meister Eckhart

“It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

“A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper, and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”
― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“Each one of us is what he pursues and cares for. In everyday terms, we understand ourselves and our existence by way of the activities we pursue and the things we care of.”
― Martin Heidegger, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“The task of the grounding of Da-sein by way of thinking and poetry overcomes the question of possibility. That question—How is such and such possible?—is the last implementation of mathematical thinking, which is the result of the dominance of the proposition as such, which in turn is the result of the collapse of ἀλήθεια.”
― Martin Heidegger, Ponderings II-VI: Black Notebooks 1931-1938

“We are conducting an experiment with truth! Perhaps mankind will perish because of it! Fine!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The most important thing to remember is that all fact is already theory.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

“I have become a question to myself.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“A magic dwells in each beginning,
protecting us, telling us how to live.”
― Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game