Quotes

• “The peculiar self-debasement of a man consists in this,—when he makes himself an instrument to a temporary and perishable purpose, and deigns to spend care and labour on something else than the imperishable and eternal.” — Johann Gottlieb Fichte, On the Nature of the Scholar
• “If there be one lesson more than another that should pierce his ear, it is—The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all; it is for you to dare all.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar
• “Sapere aude!” — Horace, First Book of Letters