Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

To be dragged in the wake of the passive flock and to pass a hundred and one times beneath the shears of the shepherd, or to die alone like a brave eagle on a rocky crag of a great mountain: that is the dilemma. – Praxedis Guerrero, Regeneración, 1911 February 18th

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. – Bernard Berenson, Notebook, 1892

How glorious it is — and also how painful — to be an exception. – Alfred de Musset