Alexander

“... The power which the common people ascribe to God is not only a human power (which shows that they look upon God as a man, or as being like a man), but that it also involves weakness.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything--as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Blessed are the weak who think they are good because they have no claws.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis