„Be of good cheer; for if our guests are sensible men, they will bear with us; and if they are not, we need not care about them.“

— Socrates

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„Let us put our griefs to rest in our own hearts…What good's to be won from tears that chill the spirit?So the immortals spun our lives that we, we wretched menlive on to bear such torments—the gods live free of sorrows.“
— Homér
„Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.“
— Marie Curie
„No single one can possess greater wisdom than the many scholars who are elected by all the men for their wisdom. Yet we can. We do. We have fought against saying it, but now it is said. We do not care. We forget all men, all laws and all things save our metals and our wires. So much is still to be learned! So long a road lies before us, and what care we if we must travel it alone!“
— Ayn Rand
„Are we still of any use? What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straightforward men. Will our inward power of resistance be strong enough, and our honesty with ourselves remoreseless enough, for us to find our way back to simplicity and straightforwardness?“
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer