"If you wish to advance into the..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.”

“Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.”

“In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.”

“We are not certain, we are never certain.”

“Knowledge is the antidote to fear,-Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.”

“Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.”

“On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there.”

“New earths, new themes expect us.”

“There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket ing into outer space,or collecting botanical specimens in jungles.But if you value knowledge & the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life,you are willing to take the risks.”