René

“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.”
― Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

“What you risk reveals what you value.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost