We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even it its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. - Thoreau (Walden)
The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.
- Aristotle
This mountain which I climb is myself to the extent that I conquer it; and when I am at its summit, which I have "gained" at the cost of this effort, when I gain this magnificent view of the valley and the surrounding peaks, then I am the view; the panorama is myself dilated to the horizon, for it exists only through me, only for me....
-Jean-Paul Sartre (Being and Nothingness)
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
-Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
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