„Dionysus:Be clever, Ariadne! …You have little ears; you have my ears:Put a clever word in them! —Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …I am your labyrinth …“

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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„One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.“
— Theodor W. Adorno
„They hate you if you're clever, and they despise a fool.“
— John Lennon
„Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.“
— Walt Whitman
„Quotations: I love them because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizedly wiser than oneself.“
— Marlene Dietrich
„If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.“
— Ayn Rand
„Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.“
— Rumi
„I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears;“
— Emily Brontë