"If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on." - Immanuel Kant
"Phenomenology is as painstaking as the works of Balzac, Proust, Valery, or Cezanne - through the same kind of attention and wonder, the same demand for awareness, the same will to grasp the sense of the world or of history in its nascent state. As such, phenomenology merges with the effort of modern thought." Maurice Merleu-Ponty, 'Preface', Phenomenology of Perception, p.lxxxv, translated by Donald A. Landes
"Three passions, simply but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very edge of despair." - Bertrand Russel
