One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.

It is in the knowledge of the true conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons to act.

Let nothing define us. Let nothing subjugate us. Let freedom be our very substance.

Stand a little out of my sunlight.

-- Diogenes of Sinope

If I were not Alexander, I would wish to be Diogenes.

-- Diogenes of Sinope

In the northern darkness there is a fish called Kun. The Kun is so vast one cannot tell how many thousands of li it spans. It transforms into a bird called Peng. The back of the Peng is so vast one cannot tell how many thousands of li it spans.

-- Zhuang Zhou

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

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

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

World history is progress in the consciousness of freedom.

-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel