Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. (Rene Descartes, Discours de la Methode)

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Dwight D. Eisenhower , Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953)

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance (Oscar Wilde)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)