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.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

-- Socrates

No one desires evil.

-- Socrates

Virtue lies in the middle.

-- Aristotle

Just as medicine is useless if it does not drive out bodily disease, so philosophy is useless if it does not drive out suffering of the soul.

-- Epicurus

Ethics is the ground of being of human community — the way of aidagara (betweenness) between person and person.

-- Tetsuro Watsuji

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

-- Confucius