The vital impulse of which we speak consists, in short, in a demand for creation.

The universe is a machine for the making of gods.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

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

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

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nothing in the world is worth turning away from what we love.

-- Albert Camus

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza