I saw this world-spirit riding out through the city on reconnaissance.

What history teaches is that peoples and governments have never learned anything from it.

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the falling of dusk.

What is rational is real; and what is real is rational.

The true is the whole.

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

-- Diogenes of Sinope

Stand a little out of my sunlight.

-- Diogenes of Sinope

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

-- Bertrand Russell

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

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

-- Søren Kierkegaard

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

-- Simone de Beauvoir