Jacob

“What is it we heartily wish of each other? Is it to be pleased and flattered? No, but to be convicted and exposed, to be shamed out of our nonsense of all kinds, and made men of, instead of ghosts and phantoms. We are weary of gliding ghostlike through the world, which is itself so slight and unreal. We crave a sense of reality, though it comes in strokes of pain.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Those who seek death shall live. Those who seek life shall die.”
― Sun-sin Yi

“Beware of anyone who calls you bad names merely for asking honest questions.”
― Jim Goad

“And the abyss shouts from her depth laid bare,
Heaven, hast thou secrets? Man unveils me; I have none.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound