Sander Vanhove

“Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. What one has no access to through experience one has no ear for.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am so Clever

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

“The scholar, who really does nothing but 'trundle' books [...] finally loses the ability to think for himself. [...] He replies to a stimulus (a thought he has read) when he thinks - finally he does nothing but react. [...] he himself no longer thinks. [...] 'read to ruins”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am so Clever