"The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do; the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die."
-- Kierkegaard
"If we look more closely at our thoughts and aspirations, we everywhere come upon the dear self."
-- Immanuel Kant
"Life is a race with no other good but to be foremost."
-- Thomas Hobbes
"All desire their good to be complete."
-- Thomas Aquinas
"Happiness requires both complete virtue and complete life."
-- Aristotle
"Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and not similarly with reutation and honor, and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?"
-- Socrates
"A word well spoken is like apples of gold in bowls of silver"
-- Prov. 25:11
