17/01/2005

“Let us ask ourselves sincerely whether the swallow from this summer is another swallow than the one from the first summer and if between these two summers indeed a million times the miracle occured by which something was created out of nothing after which it was ridiculed just as many times by complete destruction. Whoever hears me assuring that the cat that is playing at this spot is the same cat that jumped and crept about this same spot threehundred years ago, may think whatever he wants: it is even far more foolish to imagine it being a really different cat.”

Schopenhauer/Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung