Tao Te Ching

“Today, writing is a grave duty. Its purpose is not to entertain the mind with fairy tales and make it forget, but to proclaim a state of mobilization to all the luminous forces still surviving in our age of transition, and to urge men to do their utmost to surpass the beast.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis 1883 – 1957 CE via P. A. Bien
from Report to Greco