"All of us, in words that contradict each other, express at bottom the same exalted impulse. What sets us against one another is not our aims — they all come to the same thing — but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning."

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

"There is a genius for impoverishment always at work in the world. And it has its way, as if its proceedings were not only necessary but even sensible. Its rationale, its battle cry, is Competition."

Marilynne Robinson

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."

Immanuel Kant