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Mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. He [man] really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.

— Human All Too Human

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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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"الشعر ضرورة وآه لو اعرف لماذا..


جان كوكتو

That which we now call the world is the outcome of a host of errors and fantasies which have gradually arisen and grown entwined with one another in the course of overall evolution of the organic being, and are now inherited by us as the accumulated treasure of the entire past – as treasure: for the value of our humanity depends upon it.

— Human All Too Human

Someone once said:
“There are some people whom it is one’s duty to annoy.”

Humans are truly unique and special, not “just” another species of primate. I still find it a little bit surprising that this position needs as much defense as it does against no small number of my colleagues who seem comfortable stating that we are “just apes” in a casual, dismissive tone that seems to revel in our lowliness. I sometimes wonder: Is this perhaps the secular humanists’ version of original sin?

— The Tell-Tale Brain

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life.

— Sherlock Holmes