That, indeed, ought to be the epitaph of university philosophy:
'it disturbed nobody.'

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.

— Aristotle

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

— Søren Kierkegaard