"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
— Søren Kierkegaard

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. -Nikos Kazantzakis

The ignorance of how to use new knowledge stockpiles exponentially - Marshall Mcluhan

We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

"Resist much. Obey little."
— Walt Whitman

But often, in the world's most crowded streets,
But often, in the din of strife,
There rises an unspeakable desire
After the knowledge of our buried life;

A thirst to spend our fire and restless force
In tracking out our true, original course;
A longing to inquire
Into the mystery of this heart which beats
So wild, so deep in us -- to know
Where our lives come and where they go.

Matthew Arnold, 1842
from The Buried Life