Jens Gärtner

“And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced it. It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs—and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“«La filosofía honesta no pretender explicar sino circunscribir el misterio».”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“Literature is my Utopia”
― Helen Keller

“In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.”
― Nicolas Gomez Davila