„Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life.Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.“

— Cesare Pavese

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„I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed.“
— Etty Hillesum
„McIlvaine continued, “Take the amoeba—a more basic, and much more successful life form than than ours. The motivational psychology of the amoeba—”I switched off my ears; free speech gives a man the right to talk about the “psychology” of an amoeba, but I don’t have to listen.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving…“
— Albert Einstein