Everything changes.

Nothing lasts.

You are not alone.

Sapien is dedicated to those who offered an immortal contribution to the human project.

To the greatest thinkers who ever lived.

To the greatest thinkers who ever died.

To the Magicians: Harry Houdini , James Randi

To the Comedians: George Carlin , Groucho Marx , Lenny Bruce , Lucille Ball , Patrice O'Neal , Richard Pryor , Robin Williams

To the Inventors: Alexander Graham Bell , Buckminster Fuller , Enzo Ferrari , Henry Bessemer , Henry Ford , Leonardo da Vinci , Nikola Tesla , Steve Jobs , Thomas Edison

To the Artists: Andy Warhol , Anne Truitt , Ansel Adams , Frank Gelett Burgess , Frida Kahlo , Georgia O'Keeffe , Jean Michel Basquiat , Louise Bourgeois , Maurits Cornelis Escher , Milton Glaser , Pablo Picasso , Salvador Dali , Vincent Van Gogh , Yousuf Karsh

To the Scientists: Albert Hofmann , Albert Einstein , Alan Turing , Alexander Fleming , Alexander Shulgin , Carl Sagan , David Bohm , E. O. Wilson , Edward Teller , Enrico Fermi , Ernest Rutherford , Erwin Schrodinger , George Gamow , Grace Hopper , Heinz von Foerster , Isaac Newton , J. Robert Oppenheimer , James Clerk Maxwell , Leo Szilard , Ludwig Boltzmann , Marie Curie , Marvin Minsky , Mary Somerville , Max Planck , Michael Faraday , Niels Bohr , Paul Dirac , Richard Feynman , Richard Lewontin , Robert Gordon Wasson , Stephen Hawking , Stephen Jay Gould , Werner Heisenberg , Wolfgang Pauli

To the Stoics: Marcus Aurelius , Gaius Musonius Rufus , Seneca , Zeno of Tarsus

To the Existentialists: Albert Camus , Friedrich Nietzsche , Fyodor Dostoevsky , Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Martin Heidegger , Simone De Beauvoir , Søren Kierkegaard

To the Psychologists: Abraham Maslow , Albert Ellis , Alfred Adlee , BF Skinner , Carl Jung , Carl Rogers , Erich Fromm , Erik Erikson , Ernest Becker , Frantz Fanon , Ivan Pavlov , Jean Piaget , Karen Horney , Kurt Lewin , Sigmund Freud , Ulric Neisser , Viktor Frankl , Wilhelm Wundt , William James

To the Musicians: Billie Holiday , Bob Marley , Chuck Berry , David Bowie , Duke Ellington , Ella Fitzgerald , Ernest Bloch , Frank Sinatra , Frank Zappa , Franz Liszt , Freddie Mercury , Frédéric Chopin , George Harrison , James Brown , Janis Joplin , Jim Morrison , Jimi Hendrix , Johann Sebastian Bach , John Lennon , Johnny Cash , Josephine Baker , Kurt Cobain , Leonard Cohen , Ludwig van Beethoven , Marvin Gaye , Miles Davis , Pete Seeger , Prince , Ravi Shankar , The Notorious B.I.G. , Thelonious Monk , Tom Petty , Tupac Shakur , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

To the Poets: Alain LeRoy Locke , Allen Ginsberg , Alfred Tennyson , Anatole France , Anna Akhmatova , Anne Sexton , Arthur Rimbaud , Charles Baudelaire , Charles Bukowski , Christina Rossetti , Czeslaw Milosz , Dante Alighieri , Delmore Schwartz , Derek Walcott , Diane di Prima , Dorothy Parker , Dylan Thomas , E. E. Cummings , Elizabeth Browning , Emily Dickinson , Ezra Pound , Faiz Ahmed Faiz , Federico García Lorca , Ferdowsi , Frederic W.H. Myers , Gabriela Mistral , Geoffrey Chaucer , Giuseppe Ungaretti , Gwendolyn Brooks , Hafiz , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Ikkyu , Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe , John Donne , John Keats , John Milton , Kabir Das , Khalil Gibran , Langston Hughes , Lord Byron , Mary Oliver , Matthew Arnold , Maya Angelou , Octavio Paz , Ogden Nash , Oscar Wilde , Pablo Neruda , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Philip Larkin , Rabindranath Tagore , Rainer Maria Rilke , Robert Frost , Robert Hayden , Robert Lowell , Rumi , Ryokan Taigu , Salvatore Quasimodo , Shel Silverstein , Sylvia Plath , T.S. Eliot , Ted Hughes , Terrence McKenna , Theodore Roethke , Tomas Tranströmer , Tristan Tzara , Vicente Aleixandre , Virgil , W. B. Yeats , Wallace Stevens , Walt Whitman , William Blake , William Carlos Williams , William Cowper , William Shakespeare , William Wordsworth , Wislawa Szymborska

To the Occultists: Aleister Crowley , Austin Osman Spare , Dion Fortune , Éliphas Lévi , Franz Bardon , Giordano Bruno , Hermes Trismegistus , Jack Parsons , Lois Bourne , Madame Blavatsky , Manly P. Hall , Samael Aun Weor , Sybil Leek , William Robert Woodman , William Wynn Westcott

To the Astronaut: Neil Armstrong

To the Chefs: Anthony Bourdain , Julia Childs

To the Naturalists: Charles Darwin , Henry David Thoreau , John Muir , Steve Irwin

To the Explorers: Jacques Cousteau , Junko Tabei

To the Martial Artists: Bruce Lee , Kano Jigoro , Helio Gracie , Miyamoto Musashi , Morihei Ueshiba

To the Journalists: Edward Murrow , H. L. Mencken , Katharine Graham , Walter Cronkite

To the Mathematicians: Benoit Mandelbrot , Blaise Pascal , Carl Friedrich Gauss , Henri Poincaré , John von Neumann , Kurt Gödel

To the Directors: Akira Kurosawa , Alfred Hitchcock , Ingmar Bergman , Maya Deren , Orson Welles , Stanley Kubrick

To the Theologians: Anselm of Canterbury , Augustine of Hippo , John Henry Newman , Martin Luther , Mircea Eliade , Thomas Aquinas

To the Generals: Carl von Clausewitz , George Patton , George Washington , Ghenghis Khan , Hannibal , Napoleon Bonaparte , Sitting Bull , Tecumseh , Thucydides

To the Economists: Adam Smith , Friedrich Hayek , John Maynard Keynes , Ludwig von Mises

To the Greek Tragedians: Aeschylus , Euripides , Sophocles

To the Athletes: Althea Gibson , Arthur Ashe , Jackie Robinson , Joe DiMaggio , Kobe Bryant , Mickey Mantle , Muhammad Ali , Ted Williams , Ty Cobb , Wilt Chamberlain , Yogi Berra

To the Actors: Carrie Fisher , Cary Grant , Chadwick Boseman , Charlie Chaplin , Douglas Fairbanks , Elizabeth Taylor , Fred Rogers , Heath Ledger , Hedy Lamarr , Humphrey Bogart , James Dean , John Wayne , Marilyn Monroe , Marlon Brando , Paul Newman , Sean Connery , Sidney Poitier

To the Capitalists: Andrew Carnegie , Clayton Christensen , Coco Chanel , Cornelius Vanderbilt , David Ogilvy , Estee Lauder , J.P. Morgan , John D. Rockefeller , Leo Burnett , P.T. Barnum , Tony Hsieh , Walt Disney

To the Teachers: Adi Shankara , Ajahn Chah , Anandamayi Ma , Anthony De Mello , Aryadeva , Baba Nanak , Bob Ross , Bodhidharma , Chögyam Trungpa , Hakuin Ekaku , Jesus of Nazareth , Mahasi Sayadaw , Lalleshwari , Meera , Milarepa , Mirra Alfassa , Padampa Sangye , Padmasambhava , Papaji , Paramahansa Yogananda , Ram Dass , Ramakrishna Paramahamsa , Ramana Maharshi , Shunryu Suzuki Roshi , Siddhartha Gautama , Sri Swami Satchidananda , Swami Vivekananda , Thich Nhat Hanh , Timothy Leary , Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche , Zoroaster

To the Leaders: Abraham Lincoln , Alexander Hamilton , Alexander The Great , Ben Franklin , Benazir Bhutto , Benjamin Disraeli , Booker T. Washington , Catherine the Great , Cesare Borgia , Charlemagne , Charles de Gaulle , Che Guevara , Colin Powell , Crazy Horse , Desmond Tutu , Dwight D. Eisenhower , Elenor Roosevelt , Florence Nightingale , Franklin D. Roosevelt , Frederick Douglass , Gandhi , Geronimo , Harriet Tubman , Henry Ward Beecher , Huey Newton , Jane Adamms , John Adams , John Jay , John Lewis , John McCain , Malcolm X , Malidoma Patrice Somé , Marcus Tullius Cicero , Margaret Sanger , Margaret Thatcher , Martin Luther King Jr , Mary Parker Follett , Rosa Parks , Ruth Bader Ginsburg , Samuel Adams , Sarojini Naidu , Saul Alinsky , Shirley Chisholm , Sojourner Truth , Thomas Babington Macaulay , Thomas Jefferson , Thomas Woodrow Wilson , Wangari Maathai , William Jennings Bryan , Winston Churchill

To the Philosophers: Alfred North Whitehead , Alexis de Tocqueville , Alan Watts , Aristotle , Arthur Schopenhauer , Aurobindo Ghose , Auguste Comte , Baruch Spinoza , Bertrand Russell , Boethius , Claude Lévi-Strauss , Confucius , D.T. Suzuki , David Hume , Denis Diderot , Dogen Zenji , Douglas Harding , Edith Stein , Edmund Burke , Edmund Husserl , Émile Durkheim , Epictetus , Erasmus , Ferdinand de Saussure , Francis Bacon , Friedrich Engels , G. K. Chesterton , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , George Berkeley , George Gurdjieff , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , Hannah Arendt , Henri Bergson , Henri Lefebvre , Henry Sidgwick , Heraclitus , Herbert Marcuse , Herbert Spencer , Immanuel Kant , Inayat Khan , Ivan Illich , Jacques Lacan , James P. Carse , Jean de La Bruyère , Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Jean-Paul Sartre , Jeremy Benthem , Jiddu Krishnamurti , John Dewey , John Locke , John Rawls , John Stuart Mill , José Ortega y Gasset , Ju Mipham , Karl Marx , Karl Popper , Lao Tzu , Leo Strauss , Lucretius , Ludwig Wittgenstein , Machiavelli , Margaret Mead , Marshall McLuhan , Michel de Montaigne , Mikhail Bakhtin , Montesquieu , Moses Maimonides , Mozi , Nagarjuna , Niklas Luhmann , Parmenides , Pierre Bayle , Plato , Plutarch , Pythagoras , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Rene Girard , Robert Nozick , Simone Weil , Socrates , Sun Tzu , Theodor Adorno , Thomas Hobbes , U. G. Krishnamurti , Voltaire , Walter Benjamin , Xenophon , Xun Kuang , Zhuang Zhou

To the Writers: Agatha Christie , Aldous Huxley , Alexander Dumas , Alexander Pushkin , Alexander Solzhenitsyn , André Breton , Anthony Burgess , Anton Chekhov , Arthur Miller , August Strindberg , Baltasar Gracián , C.S. Lewis , Carlos Castaneda , Carlos Ruiz Zafón , Charles Dickens , Charlotte Brontë , Charles M. Schulz , Chinua Achebe , Christopher Hitchens , D.H. Lawrence , Dale Carnegie , David Foster Wallace , David Graeber , Doreen Valiente , Douglas Adams , Dr. Seuss , E. L. Doctorow , E.M. Forster , Earl Nightingale , Edgar Allan Poe , Elbert Hubbard , Elie Wiesel , Enid Blyton , Ernest Hemingway , François de La Rochefoucauld , François Mauriac , Frank Herbert , Franz Kafka , Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Gary Halbert , George Bernard Shaw , George Eliot , George Orwell , Gertrude Stein , Gustave Flaubert , H.G. Wells , Hans Christian Andersen , Harold Bloom , Helen Keller , Henry James , Herman Melville , Hermann Hesse , Honoré de Balzac , Hunter S Thompson , Isaac Asimov , Israel Regardie , J.R.R Tolkein , Jack Kerouac , Jack London , James Baldwin , James Joyce , Jane Austen , Joan Didion , John Steinbeck , John Updike , Jonathan Swift , Jorge Luis Borges , Joseph Campbell , Joseph Heller , Joyce Cary , Jules Verne , Jun'ichiro Tanizaki , Ken Kesey , Kurt Vonnegut , Leo Tolstoy , Lewis Carroll , Marcel Proust , Margot Adler , Mark Twain , Maurice Sendak , Miguel de Cervantes , Mikhail Bulgakov , Nadine Gordimer , Napoleon Hill , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Nikolai Gogol , Nikos Kazantzakis , Norman Mailer , Og Mandino , Philip Roth , Ralph Ellison , Raymond Buckland , Robert Anton Wilson , Roberto Bolan , Roger Ebert , Roger Zelazny , Rudyard Kipling , Samuel Beckett , Samuel Johnson , Sophocles , Stan Lee , Susan Sontag , Tennessee Williams , Terry Pratchett , Thomas Hardy , Thomas Mann , Thomas Pynchon , Tom Wolfe , Toni Morrison , Truman Capote , Umberto Eco , Upton Sinclair , Ursula K. Le Guin , Virginia Woolf , Vladimir Nabokov , W.E.B Du Bois , Walter Lippmann , Wayne Dyer , William S. Burroughs , William Faulkner , William Gaddis , William Golding , Yasunari Kawabata , Zig Ziegler , Zora Neale Hurston

And to you, dear reader, whose mind runs with roots far deeper than you can imagine.