Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies.

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

Behold what is absent as firmly present through the mind.

-- Parmenides

It is not I who conform to the stars; the stars conform to me.

-- Plotinus

Everything depends on your judgment, and that judgment rests with you.

-- Marcus Aurelius

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

-- Stephen Hawking

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

-- Bertrand Russell

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

-- Averroes