God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him!

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

For thinking and Being are the same.

-- Parmenides

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

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

-- Plato

I know that I know nothing.

-- Socrates

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

-- Democritus

Those who understand that things arise dependently know them to be empty.

-- Nagarjuna