This is one of the ideas that keeps me getting out and exercising even when I feel like I just need rest.

A translated line from Lessing's "Nathan der Weise". Original German version: "Ich weiß, wie gute Menschen denken; weiß, daß alle Länder gute Menschen tragen."

A view lines later Nathan goes on to explain: "Wir haben beide uns unser Volk nicht auserlesen. Sind wir unser Volk? Was heißt denn Volk? Sind Christ und Jude eher Christ und Jude, als Mensch?"

Translation: "Neither of us has chosen his people. Are we our people? What does people mean? Are Christians and Jews Christians and Jews more than humans?"

"Truth has no path, and that is the beauty of truth, it is living. A dead thing has a path to it because it is static, but when you see that truth is something living, moving, which has no resting place, which is in no temple, mosque or church, which no religion, no teacher, no philosopher, nobody can lead you to, then you will also see that this living thing is what you actually are." -Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Is humanity ready for a transformation of consciousness, an inner
flowering so radical and profound that compared to it the flowering of
plants, no matter how beautiful, is only a pale reflection? Can human beings
lose the density of their conditioned mind structures and become like
crystals or precious stones, so to speak, transparent to the light of
consciousness? Can they defy the gravitational pull of materialism and
materiality and rise above identification with form that keeps the ego in
place and condemns them to imprisonment within their own personality?"

-Eckhart Tolle

“The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'...and I'll look down and whisper 'No.” - Rorschach

Quote from a Swedish film called ”the centenarian who stepped out of the window and disappeared.”