Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies.

The wise man is free from passions, not because he does not feel, but because his judgments are correct.

-- Chrysippus of Soli

Stand a little out of my sunlight.

-- Diogenes of Sinope

If I were not Alexander, I would wish to be Diogenes.

-- Diogenes of Sinope

The pleasant life is produced not by endless drinking and revelry but by sober reasoning.

-- Epicurus

In the northern darkness there is a fish called Kun. The Kun is so vast one cannot tell how many thousands of li it spans. It transforms into a bird called Peng. The back of the Peng is so vast one cannot tell how many thousands of li it spans.

-- Zhuang Zhou

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

-- Confucius