Lázaro

“He looked around as if seeing the world for the first time. How beautiful it was, how colorful, how strange and mysterious! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green; sky and river were flowing; forests and mountains stood fixed: Everything was beautiful, everything mysterious and magical, and in the midst of all this was he, Siddhartha, in the moment of his awakening, on the path to himself. All these things, all this yellow and blue, river and forest, passed through Siddhartha’s eye and entered him for the first time; they were no longer the illusion of Mara, no longer the veil of Maya, no longer the meaningless random multiplicity of the world of appearances, contemptible to any deep thinker among Brahmins, any thinker who scoffed at multiplicity and sought oneness. Blue was blue, river was river, and even if the One, the Divine, lay hidden in the blue and the river within Siddhartha, it was still the nature and intention of the Divine to be yellow here, blue here, sky over there, forest there, and here Siddhartha. Meaning and being did not lie somewhere behind things; they lay within them, within everything.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddartha

“El método más seguro de cuantos puedan guiarnos en la búsqueda de la verdad, consiste en elevarse, mediante la inducción, de los fenómenos concretos a relaciones cada vez más amplias hasta llegar por último a la ley general de la que derivan. A continuación se verifica esta ley, bien mediante experiencias directas, cuando es posible, bien considerando si concuerda con los fenómenos conocidos, y, si mediante una análisis riguroso, se ve que todos ellos se desprenden de esta ley, hasta en sus menores detalles y si, además, dichos fenómenos son muy numerosos y variados, entonces la ciencia adquiere el grado de certeza más elevado que pueda alcanzar. Esto es lo que le ha ocurrido a la astronomía con el descubrimiento de la gravitación universal. Pero la historia de las ciencias nos permite ver que esta lenta y penosa marcha de la inducción no ha sido siempre la de los inventores. La imaginación, impaciente por remontarse a las causas, se complace en crear hipótesis y a menudo deforma los hechos para plegarlos a su labor: en tales casos, las hipótesis son peligrosas.”
― P. S. Laplace

“To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche