Tao Te Ching

“this world possesses a good which is dearer than life, sweeter than happiness—liberty... to gain freedom from the inner Turk—from ignorance, malice, and envy, from fear and laziness, from dazzling false ideas; and finally from idols, all of them, even the most revered and beloved.”

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