„”Fare well!””A whole world of pain is contained in these words.” How can it be contained in them? — It is bound up in them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow.“

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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„A sense of what the world is really like can be maddening; cannabis has brought me some feelings for what it is like to be crazy, and how we use that word "crazy" to avoid thinking about things that are too painful for us.“
— Carl Sagan
„An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh
„One day, during one of their sessions, Gurdjieff tells Peters to look out the window and describe what he sees. 'An oak tree' the child answers. 'And what do you see on the oak tree?' 'Acorns' Peters replies. 'How many of these acorns do you suppose will become trees?' Fritz Peters is stumped, [-] 'Maybe five or six?''No' retorts Gurdjieff. 'Only one will become a tree, perhaps, none! Nature is always very giving, but it only gives possibility. It takes hard work and great effort to become a tree or a genuine man.“
— Henry Miller
„Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.“
— Christopher Paolini