Philipp Maier

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“What makes us moral beings is that...there are some acts we believe we ought to die rather than commit...But now suppose that one has in fact done one of the things one could not have imagined doing, and finds that one is still alive. At that point, one's choices are suicide, a life of bottomless self-disgust, and an attempt to live so as never to do such a thing again. Dewey recommends the third choice.”
― Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein