“In short, the whole traditional language of “the thing out there,”   ''the image in here,” and “the mind” separate from both is totally inadequate to describe our experience, and we need a new holistic or synergetic language. The search for this new language - for “a new paradigm” - is increasingly acknowledged in many other disciplines, these days, as it becomes obvious to more and more researchers that the old models have outlived their usefulness.”

-Robert Anton Wilson, The New Inquisition

“‘Therefore, O ye of the future, ye new Dioscuri, therefore linger a little when ye pass by the place where Hyperion sleeps, linger in sympathy over the forgotten man’s ashes, and say: He would be like one of us, were he here now.’” 

-Friedrich Hölderlin, Hyperion

“Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities : it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.”

-Arthur Koeslter, The Sleepwalkers