Ruben J. D.

“Die Diskrepanz wird konkret faßbar, wenn die Auffassung vertreten wird, daß Frauenforschung nur von Frauen adäquat betrieben werden könne (ein Argument aus dem Antiquariat der ciceronisch-quintilianischen Rhetorik), oder wenn die Aufschreiqualität von Aussagen neben Wahrheit und Unwahrheit gleichsam als dritter Wert angeboten wird.”
― Niklas Luhmann, Protest. Systemtheorie und soziale Bewegungen.

“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“You see, in the beginning was the Word. And the Word was made flesh in the weave of the human universe. And only the poet can expand this universe, finding shortcuts to new realities the way the Hawking drive tunnels under the barriers of Einsteinian space/time.
To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mother of Humanity.
To be a true poet is to become God.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion