“ Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste a viver come bruti ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza. ”

— Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia, Inferno, Canto XXVI

“ But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity).”

— Samuel Beckett, Watt

“ Im Werk der Kunst hat sich die Wahrheit des Seienden ins Werk gesetzt. ”

— Martin Heidegger, Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes