When one shuts one eye, one does not hear everything.
Swiss Proverb
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Arthur Shopenhauer
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
Charles Darwin
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
Søren Kierkegaard
The goal of all life is death.
Sigmund Freud
But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.
Jacques Derrida
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.