"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential,
for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.
And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!"

— Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

"God? This is precisely what was feared by Iconoclasts, whose millennial quarrel is still with us today.
This is precisely because they predicted this omnipotence of simulacra, the faculty simulacra have of effacing God from the conscience of man, and the destructive, annihilating truth that they allow to appear—that deep down God never existed , that only the simulacrum ever existed, even that God himself was never anything but his own simulacrum—from this came their urge to destroy the images."

— Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation