He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. – Marcus Aurelius
People are divided into two parts: some of them look for and cannot find anything, others find but are not satisfied. – Mihai Eminescu, translated by Oana Platon
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. – Leo Rosten
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. – Karl Jaspers
