“Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.”

“Purpose is the great divider that separates those who are simply living, from those who are truly alive.”

“There are very few intellectual elites and those who think they are, are merely not and those who are not shows us the intellectual power of human mind. ”

“Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.”

“And that must end us, that must be our cure:To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose,Though full of pain, this intellectual being,Those thoughts that wander through eternity,To perish, rather, swallowed up and lostIn the wide womb of uncreated nightDevoid of sense and motion?”

“Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.”