The Cambridge Introduction to Indian Philosophy

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“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

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

— Will Durant

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

— Søren Kierkegaard

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Leo Rosten

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Leo Tolstoy

“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

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

— Colette

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Edward R. Murrow