History as a whole is a progressive, gradually self-disclosing revelation of the Absolute.

Nature should be visible spirit, spirit invisible nature.

Has creation a final goal? And if so, why was it not reached at once?... Because God is Life, and not merely Being.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

-- Steve Jobs

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

-- Bertrand Russell

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few.

-- Gustav Klimt

To create original products, you need an environment where original people can operate freely.

-- Masaru Ibuka

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza

I arrange my subject as I want, then I begin to paint it like a child.

-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir