People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also… - Friedrich Nietzsche

Man will desire oblivion rather than not desire at all.

We produce these representations in and from ourselves with the same necessity with which the spider spins. If we are forced to comprehend all things only under these forms, then it ceases to be amazing that in all things we actually comprehend nothing but these forms. For they must all bear within themselves the laws of number, and it is precisely number which is most astonishing in things. All that conformity to law, which impresses us so much in the movement of the stars and in chemical processes, coincides at bottom with those properties which we bring to things. Thus it is we who impress ourselves in this way

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.