„We deemed the secret lost, the spirit gone,Which spake in Greek simplicity of thought,And in the forms of gods and heroes wroughtEternal beauty from the sculptured stone“

— Margaret Fuller

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„The hand that rounded Peter's dome,And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,Wrought in a sad sincerity,Himself from God he could not free;He builded better than he knew,The conscious stone to beauty grew.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty“
— Werner Heisenberg
„Centuries of husbandry, decades of diligent culling, the work of numerous hearts and hands, have gone into the hackling, sorting, and spinning of this tightly twisted yarn. Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.“
— Joseph Campbell
„Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Barzai knew so much of the gods that he could tell of their comings and goings, and guessed so many of their secrets that he was deemed half a god himself.“
— H.P. Lovecraft