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EPIGRAPH

Sind wir nicht auch ein Weltgebaude, so gut als der Sternenhimmel, und eines das wir besser kennen solten, und besser kennen könnten, sollte man denken, als das dort oben?

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, Gedankenbücher

Are we too not a cosmic system, and one we know better, or at least ought to know better, than we do the heavenly firmament?

Notebooks

It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON, ‘Friendship’

LET THE MILKY WAY BE SPLIT INTO THE MILKY WAY OF INVENTOR/EXPLORERS AND THE MILKY WAY OF INVESTOR/EXPLOITERS

VELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV, The Trumpet of the Martians