Maarten van Schie

I balance between

“Direct your eye right inward, and you`ll find

A thousand regions in your mind

Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be

Expert in home-cosmography.”

and

"Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up inourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses."

By Henry David Thoreau, respectively Michel de Montaigne.