Esioan

“In the knowledgeable realm, the form of the good is the last thing to be seen, and it is reached only with difficulty. Once one has seen it, however, one must conclude that it is the cause of all that is correct and beautiful in anything, that it produces both light and its source in the visible realm, and that in the intelligible realm it controls and provides truth and understanding, so that anyone who is to act sensibly in private or public must see it.”
― Plato, Parmenides

“There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.”
― Max Tegmark, Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

“[T]he human being (and so all finite beings generally) becomes human only among others. Self and other stand in a relation of potential reciprocity.”
― Johann Fichte

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial