Jorgis

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound

“That which Dante saw written on the door of the inferno must be written in a different sense also at the entrance to philosophy: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” Those who look for true philosophy must be bereft of all hope, all desire, all longing. They must not wish for anything, not know anything, must feel completely bare and impoverished.”
― Friedrich Schelling

“Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?”
― Socrates

“Pats cīnies, palīdz, domā, spried un sver,
Pats esi kungs, pats laimei – durvis ver!”
― Rainis