Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.

The world is my representation.

Life swings like a pendulum back and forth between pain and boredom.

Every day is a little life.

We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.

Every other is wholly other.

-- Jacques Derrida

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

-- Simone Weil

The purpose of human existence is to attain supreme happiness.

-- Farabi

Human nature is evil; its goodness is the result of deliberate effort.

-- Xunzi

Those who move others can feel what others feel. But empathizers struggle themselves. Those who never struggle will never move anyone.

-- Sōichirō Honda

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb