An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia - Volume 5

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

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“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

— Victor Hugo

“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

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

“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

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Carl Jung

“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...

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

— Doris Lessing

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

— Anne Tyler

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

— Wallace Stevens

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Immanuel Kant

“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Miguel de Unamuno