Philosophy in the Middle Ages

“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.”

— Karl Popper

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

— Carl Jung

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

— Margaret Atwood

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

— Erich Fromm

“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

— Colette

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

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“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Søren Kierkegaard

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Anne Tyler

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

— Leo Rosten

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

— Simone Weil

“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”

— Henry Miller

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus