James Cook

“Whoever seeks mere edification, whoever wants to shroud in a mist the manifold variety of existence and thought, in order to pursue the indeterminate enjoyment of this indeterminate divinity, may look wherever he likes to find all this. He will find ample opportunity to dream up something for himself.”
― Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedric

“That which is afraid is that which is capable of
being affected.”
― Plotinus, The Enneads

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche