Alexander Carmele

“Zwischen scheinbar harmloser Ideologie und ihren radikalen Anwendungen lassen sich keine klaren Grenzen ziehen. Deshalb muss die Aufklärung an der Wurzel des Übels ansetzen. Es rächt sich, wenn man den Glauben an ... respektiert und zugleich hofft, dass niemand diesen Glauben missbrauchen oder radikal interpretieren wird”
― Hubert Schleichert, Wie man mit Fundamentalisten diskutiert, ohne den Verstand zu verlieren : Anleitung zum subversiven Denken

“But he who, having no touch of the Muses' madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks that he will get into the temple by the help of art—he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man disappears and is nowhere when he enters into rivalry with the madman.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

“Love is more than a cultural ideal; it is a social foundation for the self. Yet, the cultural resources that make it constitutive of the self have been depleted.”
― Eva Illouz, Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation

“She had, he thought, one of the world’s great laughs. The kind of laugh where a person didn’t feel that he was being laughed at. The kind of laugh that was an invitation: I cordially invite you to join in this matter that I find amusing.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow