Eric Fritz

“Only the weak are put on paths without peril.”
― Hermann Hesse

“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Yes, he said in a voice indescribable, you are right. I am afraid of him. Therefore I swear by God that I will seek out this man whom I fear until I find him, and strike him on the mouth. If heaven were his throne and the earth his footstool, I swear that I would pull him down.

How? asked the staring Professor. Why?

Because I am afraid of him, said Syme; and no man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien