I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand.

That than which nothing greater can be thought.

Faith seeking understanding.

No sign is so clear that it does not also carry some obscurity

-- John Calvin

You must learn all things: both the steadfast heart of well-rounded Truth and the opinions of mortals, in which there is no true trust.

-- Parmenides

For thinking and Being are the same.

-- Parmenides

I know that I know nothing.

-- Socrates

Imagine prisoners chained underground since childhood, seeing only shadows on a wall and taking them for reality.

-- Plato

Color exists by convention, sweet by convention, bitter by convention; in reality there are only atoms and void.

-- Democritus