Karl

“Non est salvatori salvator,
neque defensori dominus,
nec pater nec mater,
nihil supernum.”
― Godric Gryffindor

“Can an ass be tragic? To perish under a burden one can neither bear nor throw off? The case of the philosopher.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.”
― Nietszche

“It was sometimes praised as a noble public endeavor, but nearly all other Atlanteans found more important things to do on any given day than help. Even the Atlantean nobles ignored the prospect of somebody other than themselves obtaining unchallengeable power, which a less experienced cynic might expect to catch their attention. With relatively little support, the tiny handful of would-be makers of this device labored under working conditions that were not so much dramatically arduous, as pointlessly annoying. Eventually time ran out and Atlantis was destroyed with the device still far from complete.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky