„Of lovers whose bodies smell of each otherWho think the same thoughts without need of speech“

— T.S. Eliot

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„And when you see a man who is repining at the approach of death, is not his reluctance a sufficient proof that he is not a lover of wisdom, but a lover of the body, and probably at the same time a lover of either money or power, or both?“
— Socrates
„The vicious lover is the follower of earthly Love who desires the body rather than the soul; his heart is set on what is mutable and must therefore be inconstant. And as soon as the body he loves begins to pass the first flower of its beauty, he "spreads his wings and flies away," giving the lie to all his pretty speeches and dishonoring his vows, whereas the lover whose heart is touched by moral beauties is constant all his life, for he has become one with what will never fade.“
— Platón
„Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought“
— Eckhart Tolle
„The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„Think of life as it really is, think of the details of life; and then think that there is no meaning in it, no purpose, no goal except the grave. Surely only fools or self-deceivers, or those whose lives are exceptionally fortunate, can face that thought without flinching?“
— George Orwell