He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is
intelligent. He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty.
He who is satisfied with his lot is rich; he who goes on acting with energy has a (firm) will."
                                                -Lau Tsu

"We are what we pretend to be."
                                                -Kurt Vonnegut jr.

"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."
                                               -Oscar Wilde

We shall not cease from exploration,
And the end of all our exploring,
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
                                               -T.S. Eliot

"To be suprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury,
special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in
looking at the world with eyes wide open in wonder. Everything in the world is
strange and marvelous to well-open eyes."
                                               -Jose Ortega y Gasset

Not every end is a goal.. The end of a melody is not its goal; however, if the melody
has not reached its end, it would also not have reached its goal. A parable."
                                               -Friedrich Nietzsche

"All men dream... but not equally. They who dream by night in the dusty recesses of
their minds wake in the day to find that it is vanity; but the dreamers of the day are
dangerous men, for they act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."
                                              -T. E.Lawrence

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and
it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
                                              -Anais Nin

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has
attained liberation from the self."
                                             -Albert Einstein

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
                                             -Mahatma Gandhi

"The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses
for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about
time?
Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your
hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space.
Empty space and points of light.
What does this say about the reality of the world?"
                                            -Jeanette Winterson

"We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if
you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there."
                                            -Dana Gould

"I am conscious of myself and become myself only while revealing myself for
another, through another, and with the help of another. To be means to
communicate... To be means to be for another, and through the other, for oneself. A
person has no internal sovereign territory, he is wholly and always on the boundary:
looking inside himself, he looks into the eyes of another or with the eyes of another...
I cannot imagine without another, I cannot become myself without another; I must
find myself in another by finding another in myself."
                                           -Mikhail Bakhtin
 

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
                                           -B.F. Skinner

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
                                           -Albert Einstein