Philosophy: A Christian Introduction

“Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

— George Orwell

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was t...

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”

— Margaret Atwood

“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours.”

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“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

— Anne Tyler

“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.”

— Edward R. Murrow

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

— Immanuel Kant

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

— Leo Rosten

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”

— Albert Camus

“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Rooted in freedom, bonded in the fellowship of danger, sharing everywhere a common human blood, we declare again that all men are brothers, and that mutual tolerance is the price of liberty.”<...

“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

— Wallace Stevens