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“Philosophy has the curious characteristic that, although itself entrapped, locked inside the glasshouse of our constitution and our language, it is nevertheless able constantly to think beyond itself and its limits, to think itself through the walls of its glasshouse. And this thinking beyond itself, into openess – that, precisely, is metaphysics.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Metaphysics: Concept and Problems

“Excess makes the heart grow fonder...”
― John Balance

“man’s being is essentially his own deed.”
― Friedrich Schelling

“The past is known, the present is recognized, the future is divined.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

“There is no greatness without a continual solicitation to madness which, while it must be overcome, must never be completely lacking. One might profit by classifying men in this respect. The one kind are those in whom there is no madness at all ... and are so-called men of intellect whose works and deeds are nothing but cold works and deeds of the intellect.... But where there is no madness, there is, to be sure, also no real, active, living intellect. For wherein is intellect to prove itself but in the conquest, mastery, and ordering of madness?”
― Friedrich Schelling

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.”
― Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will

“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”
― mao tse-tung