“There had always been people who had willingly entered into illness and madness in order to win knowledge for mankind – and knowledge, having been wrested from madness, became health and, once obtained by heroic sacrifice. its possession and use were no longer conditioned by illness and madness. That was the true death on the cross.”

“There had always been people who had willingly entered into illness and madness in order to win knowledge for mankind – and knowledge, having been wrested from madness, became health and, once obtained by heroic sacrifice. its possession and use were no longer conditioned by illness and madness. That was the true death on the cross.”

— Thomas Mann