„Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What’s the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?“

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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„If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?“
— Virginia Woolf
„Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.“
— Sigmund Freud
„It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„time past and time futurewhat might have been and what has beenpoint to one end, which is always present.“
— T.S. Eliot
„Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.“
— Marcus Aurelius