"For I desire wisdom and my heart seeketh to find understanding. I am smitten with the love of wisdom, and I am constrained by the cords of understanding; for wisdom is far better than treasure of gold and silver, and wisdom is the best of everything that hath been created on the Earth...Wisdom is an exalted thing and a rich thing: i will be like her mother, and she shall embrace me like a child. I will follow the footprints of wisdom, and she shall protect me forever...For it is right for us to follow the footprints of wisdom, and for the soles of our feet to stand upon the threshold of the gates of wisdom. Let us seek her and we shall find her." Queen Sheba, Kebra Nagast 23.
"Woe to him who cannot free himself from Buddhas, Gods, Motherlands, and Ideas" Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis
"Knowledge is a means, not an end. A means to inward peace not to improved outward activity. Primarily, it is a cure for anxiety, a path to ataraxia, peace of mind." Lucretius
"Out of the night that covers me
Black as the pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods there be
For my unconquerable soul...
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the soul
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul."
W.E. Henley "invictus:In Mem."
