Mephistopheles

“The botanist looking at a daffodil has no reason to dispute the right of the poet to look at the same object in a very different manner. There are many ways of playing. The point is not that one denies other people’s games but that one is clear about the rules of one’s own.”
― Peter L. Berger, Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective

“For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other mens at a distance.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Hell is truth seen too late.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell