"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle" – George Orwell

"Neither Creator nor creature, my son, was ever without love, whether natural or of the mind (...) love must be the seed in you of every virtue and of every deed that merits punishment" - Purgatorio (Canto 17) by Dante Alighieri

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost

Reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life. - Fyodor Dostoevsky