Ruben J. D.

“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

“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.

“The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“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