Jacob Shmidt

“Now we have the right to give this being the well-known name that always designates what no power of imagination, no flight of the boldest fantasy, no intently devout heart, no abstract thinking however profound, no enraptured and transported spirit has ever attained: God. But this basic unity is of the past; it no longer is. It has, by changing its being, totally and completely shattered itself. God has died and his death was the life of the world.”
― Philipp Mainländer, Die Philosophie der Erlösung

“Yes East is East, and West is West, but sometimes the two can meet—
Whether at God's great Judgment Seat; or at Buddha’s humble feet.”
― Daniel Thorman, Rise of the Tong: A LitRPG

“There is no solace above or below. Only us – small, solitary, striving, battling one another. I pray to myself, for myself.”
― Frank Underwood, House of Cards

“He who is not afraid of death, enters a house engulfed in flames; he who is not afraid of death, jumps without hesitation into a turbulent flood; he who is not afraid of death, charges into a dense hail of bullets; he who is not afraid of death, fights unarmed against thousands of armored titans; in summary, he who does not fear death is the only one who can do something for others, bleed for others, and has, at the same time, the only happiness, the only desirable good in this world: undisturbed peace of heart.”
― Philipp Mainländer