Be ye lamps unto yourselves.
Be your own reliance.
Hold to the truth within yourselves
as to the only lamp.
~ Buddha
True words always seem paradoxical but no other form of teaching can take its place.
~ Laozi
Who then are the true philosophers?
Those who are lovers of the vision of truth.
~ Plato
My people are destroyed by the lack of knowledge;
because thou hast rejected knowledge
I will also reject thee.
~ Hosea
If the way which, as I have shown, leads hither seems very difficult, it can nevertheless be found. It must indeed be difficult since it is so seldom discovered; for if salvation lay ready to hand and could be discovered without great labour, how could it be possible that it should be neglected almost by everybody? But all noble things are as difficult as they are rare.
~ Spinoza
