“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.” – Martin Heidegger (1971)

“You know what you know, and you don’t know what you don’t know. You know?” – Charles Faulkner (1993)

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,

But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

Cassius in Julius Caesar

– William Shakespeare (1599)

“The pride connected with knowing and sensing lies like a blinding fog over the eyes and senses of men …

For this pride contains within itself the most flattering estimation of the value of knowing.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1873)

“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.” – Albert Einstein  (1936)