Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever... The unexamined life is not worth living... Learning is not compulsory, neither is survival... Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance... Any fool can know, the point is to understand...
I died a mineral and became a plant, I died a plant and rose an animal, I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more I shall die as man, to soar With the blessed angels; but even from angelhood I must pass on. All except God perishes. When I have sacrificed my angel soul, I shall become that which no mind ever conceived. O, let me not exist! for non-existence proclaims, βTo Him shall we return.β