"Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Belief
"Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Balance
"Compassion is the basis of morality."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion
"Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion
"Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Hope
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
- Leonardo DaVinci
Inspiration
"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
- Socrates
Inspiration
"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."
- Wilbur Wright
Inspiration
"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."
- Charles A. Lindbergh
Inspiration
"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inspiration