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“And this, Cebes, is the reason why the true lovers of knowledge are temperate and brave; and not for the reason that the world gives. For not in that way does the soul of a philosopher reason. ...Never fear, Simmias and Cebes, that a soul which has been thus nurtured and has had these pursuits, will at her departure from the body be scattered and blown away by the winds and be nowhere and nothing.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“ "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.”
Moby Dick • Herman Melville“The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.”
Twilight of the Idols • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill.”
Book II • Marcus Aurelius