Metaphora

“Solo la música puede crear una complicidad indestructible entre dos seres. Una pasión es perecedera, se degrada como todo aquello que participa de la vida; mientras que la música pertenece a un orden superior a la vida y, por supuesto, a la muerte”
― Emil Cioran

“La finalidad de la vida no es prosperar sino transformarse. Cuando uno se lanza a lo desconocido se salva.”
― Elena Poniatowska, Leonora

“Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not predisposed to respect humble people, those who try to suspend judgement. Now contemplate epistemic humility. Think of someone heavily introspective, tortured by the awareness of his own ignorance. He lacks the courage of the idiot, yet has the rare guts to say "I don't know." He does not mind looking like a fool or, worse, an ignoramus. He hesitates, he will not commit, and he agonizes over the consequences of being wrong. He introspects, introspects, and introspects until he reaches physical and nervous exhaustion.

This does not necessarily mean he lacks confidence, only that he holds his own knowledge to be suspect. I will call such a person an epistemocrat; the province where the laws are structured with this kind of human fallibility in mind I will can an epistemocracy.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“[Writing is] like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow