Joshua

“Ich glaube, daß der Mensch sein Leben ganz in allen seinen Handlungen von Eingebungen leiten lassen kann, und ich muß jetzt glauben, daß dies das höchste Leben ist. Ich weiß, daß ich so leben könnte, wenn ich wollte, wenn ich dazu den Mut hätte. Ich habe ihn aber nicht und muß hoffen daß mich das nicht zu Tode, das heißt ewig, unglücklich machen wird.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Public and Private Occasions

“If man could not commit suicide, he would not be man.”
― Joseph Parker, The People's Bible

“Of course, one is familiar with the experience of seeing something ambiguous. “Now it is the Taj Mahal—now it is fog.” And one can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled “fog.”
― Michael Frayn

“For the nature of duration is such that a greater or lesser than a given duration can always be conceived, as is the case with number. You will perhaps insist that God has been from eternity and so has endured until the present, and thus there is a duration other than which a greater cannot be conceived. But in this way there is attributed to God a duration consisting of parts, which we have abundantly refuted when we demonstrated that there pertains to God not duration, but eternity. Would that men had thoroughly considered this truth, for then they might very easily have extricated themselves from many arguments and absurdities, and have given themselves up with the greatest delight to the blessed contemplation of this being.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Principles of Cartesian Philosophy with Metaphysical Thoughts & Lodewijk Meyer's Inaugural Dissertation