„For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all – immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.“

— Heraclitus

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„And among his hearers were a few good men,Many who were evil,And most who were neither,Like all men in all places.“
— T.S. Eliot
„All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer sight to almost everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings to light many differences between things.“
— Aristotle
„And at times already I feel old and broken... To succeed one must have ambition, and ambition seems to me absurd. What will come of it I don't know; I would like above all things to be less of a burden to you... I hope to make such progress that you will be able to show my stuff boldly without compromising yourself. And then I will take myself off somewhere down south, to get away from the sight of so many painters that disgust me as men.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„Glory to the world, that good teacher.“
— Mary Oliver
„There came one who spoke of the shame of JerusalemAnd the holy places defiled;Peter the Hermit, scourging with words.And among his hearers were a few good men,Many who were evil,And most who were neither,Like all men in all places.“
— T.S. Eliot
„A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves“
— Agatha Christie
„"The work of men" — and what is that? Well, we may any of us know very quickly, on the condition of being wholly ready to do it. But many of us are for the most part thinking, not of what we are to do, but of what we are to get; and the best of us are sunk into the sin of Ananias, and it is a mortal one — we want to keep back part of the price; and we continually talk of taking up our cross, as if the only harm in a cross was the weight of it — as if it was only a thing to be carried, instead of to be — crucified upon. "They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts."“
— John Ruskin