Carlijn Koopman

“What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.”
― Lou Andreas-Salomé

“The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.”
― Rudolf Virchow

“Not all toxic people are cruel and uncaring. Some of them love us dearly. Many of them have good intentions. Most are simply toxic to our being simply because their needs and way of existing force us to compromise ourselves and our happiness. They aren't inherently bad people, but they aren't the right people for us.”
― Daniell Koepke

“Now I understand that this passion for pain, even in the torture of martyrdom, represents the haste and impatience to no longer be interrupted and disturbed by the evil that can come from this side (meaning this life).”
― Lou Andreas-Salomé