Ariadne Quotes

Inconsolable to the minuet in Ariadne. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
It will be easy for us once we receive the ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many are there who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution? View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
No former age was ever in such a favorable position with regard to the sources of our knowledge of human nature. Psychology, ethnology, anthropology, and history have amassed an astonishingly rich and constantly increasing body of facts. Our technical instruments for observation and experimentation have been immensely improved, and our analyses have become sharper and more penetrating. We appear, nevertheless, not yet to have found a method for the mastery and organization of this material.... Unless we succeed in finding a clue of Ariadne to lead us out of this labyrinth, we can have no real insight into the general character of human culture; we shall remain lost in a mass of disconnected and disintegrated data which seem to lack all conceptual unity. View quote
Ernst Cassirer
The question here is not, "How conscience ought to be guided? For Conscience is its own General and Leader; it is therefore enough that each man have one. What we want to know is, how conscience can be her own Ariadne. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Dionysus: Be clever, Ariadne! ... You have little ears; you have my ears: Put a clever word in them! - Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? ... I am your labyrinth ... View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche