What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

It is as if Freud supplied us the sick half of psychology and we must now fill it out with the healthy half.

Emptiness wrongly grasped destroys the slow-witted, like a snake wrongly seized or a spell wrongly cast.

-- Nagarjuna

The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know.

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Drawing is not form; it is the way of seeing form.

-- Edgar Degas

To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

-- Charlie Munger

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as possible for a better solution.

-- René Descartes

To the things themselves!

-- Edmund Husserl