„Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock.”- Frankenstein p115“

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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„You, who call Frankenstein your friend, seem to have a knowledge of my crimes and his misfortunes.“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.“
— Martin Heidegger
„Human nature, human nature acts as it acts when it is identified when there is an identity but it is not human nature that has anything to do with that it is that anybody is there where they are, it is that that has to do with identity, with government and propaganda with history with individualism and with communism but it has nothing nothing to do with the human mind … because the human mind writes what there is and what has identity go to do with that … nothing at all.“
— Gertrude Stein
„The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.“
— Thomas Aquinas
„His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.“
— William Golding