We explain nature; we understand mental life.

Man is not an eternal essence but a historical being.

The first thing we can say of life is that it is a nexus.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

-- Laozi

Those who fully develop their mind know their nature. Knowing their nature, they know Heaven.

-- Mencius

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza

It is in the knowledge of the true conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons to act.

-- Simone de Beauvoir

Man is not an eternal essence but a historical being.

-- Wilhelm Dilthey

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

-- Warren Buffett