“He who has thought most deeply loves what is most alive.”
Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) German poet
Wer das Tiefste gedacht, liebt das Lebendigste.
“Sokrates und Alcibiades”
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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician
Letter to Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (15 June 1877), as quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999) Elizabeth M. Knowles, p. 642; this has also been published without the word "insipid".
1870s
Context: No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
“The man who wants you to trust him is the one you must fear the most.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: The Final Empire
“The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing…”
Lynne Reid Banks (1929) British writer
Source: The Secret of the Indian
“It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.”
Susan Sontag book AIDS and Its Metaphors
AIDS and Its Metaphors, (1989), ch. 4, p. 125, Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-312-42013-7
AIDS and Its Metaphors was later published in combination with Illness As Metaphor. This combined edition is the one referenced here.