Blasting open the phenomena with the insistent power of thought

When the light dove parts the air in free flight and feels the air’s resistance, it might come to think that it would do much better still in space devoid of air.

— Immanuel Kant

Any creature marked out for eating had better be evil. This anthropological scheme has been sublimated all the way into epistemology. Idealism … is governed unknowingly by an ideology which says that the not-I, l’autrui [the Other], anything, finally, that reminds one of nature, is worth almost nothing, so that the unity of the self-sustaining thought can devour it in good conscience. This vindicates the principle of thought and, equally, whets its appetite. Philosophical system is the belly turned mind, just as rage is the defining mark of idealism in all its forms.

— Theodore W. Adorno

The power of thought, in the long run, is greater than any other human power.

— Bertrand Russell