„All the more honour to those who have with honest effort striven to pierce the veil and explore the mysteries which lie behind it.“

— William Osler

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„To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals — this alone is worth the struggle.“
— William Osler
„It is the glistening and softly spoken lie; the amiable fallacy; the patriotic lie of the historian, the provident lie of the politician, the zealous lie of the partisan, the merciful lie of the friend, and the careless lie of each man to himself, that cast that black mystery over humanity, through which we thank any man who pierces, as we would thank one who dug a well in a desert.“
— John Ruskin
„The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.“
— Anaïs Nin
„The Happiest peoples, it is said, are those which have no history. Those who have a history, those who have made history seem only to have emphazied through their acomplishments the eternality of struggle. These disappear too eventually, just as those who made no effort, who were content to merely live & enjoy.“
— Henry Miller
„If you want to say something and have people listen then you have towear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.“
— Banksy