Tao Te Ching

“The essence went by many names; it kept changing masks all the while we pursued it. Sometimes we called it supreme hope, sometimes supreme despair, sometimes summit of man's soul, sometimes desert mirage, and sometimes blue bird and freedom. And sometimes... 'God.'”

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