„You, who call Frankenstein your friend, seem to have a knowledge of my crimes and his misfortunes.“

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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„Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock."- Frankenstein p115“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge — that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.“
— Hermann Hesse
„My practicality consists in this: in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall … that is my strength, my only strength.“
— Antonio Gramsci
„The knight of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.“
— Zhuangzi