David Rush

“The majority of men in every generation, even those who, as it is described, devote themselves to thinking, live and die under the impression that life is simply a matter of understanding more and more, and that if it were granted to them to live longer, that life would continue to be one long continuous growth in understanding. How many of them ever experience the maturity of discovering that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

“you will never find yourself unless you quit preconceiving what you will be when you have found yourself.”
― Robert Henri, The Art Spirit

“Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.”
― Werner Herzog

“Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man by necessity uncertain.”
― Erich Fromm