If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what I’m getting at? Sometimes it’s worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all.

Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony

The universe is a great mystery.

Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.

And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.