„I am a passionate admire of Sappho, but that has to be one of the stupidest sentences I have ever seen in a scholarly book.“

— Camille Paglia

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„No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.“
— Mikhail Bakunin
„Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.“
— Anaïs Nin
„I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.“
— Albert Einstein
„Of all I have ever seen or learned, that book seems to me the noblest, the wisest, and the most powerful expression of man's life upon this earth — and also the highest flower of poetry, eloquence, and truth. I am not given to dogmatic judgments in the matter of literary creation, but if I had to make one I could say that Ecclesiastes is the greatest single piece of writing I have ever known, and the wisdom expressed in it the most lasting and profound.“
— Thomas Wolfe
„I am God's Lion, not the lion of passion….I have no longingexcept for the One.When a wind of personal reaction comes,I do not go along with it.“
— Rumi
„In the same book (I Am Not Spock), I said if I was given a chance to identify with any character on television, I would choose Spock. I admire him, I like him and I respect him. I would rather be identified with Spock than any other character on television. But the mistake I made was in using that title, ‘I Am Not Spock,’ as the title of the book. People assumed I was rejecting Spock and Star Trek but they didn’t read the book. If you read the book, you’ll find quite the opposite.“
— Leonard Nimoy
„God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.“
— Jonathan Edwards