Victor

“I love the smell of the universe in the morning.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Amor fati: this is the very core of my being—And as to my prolonged illness, do I not owe much more to it than I owe to my health? To it I owe a higher kind of health, a sort of health which grows stronger under everything that does not actually kill it!—To it, I owe even my philosophy.… Only great suffering is the ultimate emancipator of spirit, for it teaches one that vast suspiciousness which makes an X out of every U, a genuine and proper X, i.e., the antepenultimate letter. Only great suffering; that great suffering, under which we seem to be over a fire of greenwood, the suffering that takes its time—forces us philosophers to descend into our nethermost depths, and to let go of all trustfulness, all good-nature, all whittling-down, all mildness, all mediocrity,—on which things we had formerly staked our humanity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche contra Wagner

“Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.”
― Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”
― Carl Sagan