The Cambridge Introduction to Chinese Philosophy

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— George Orwell

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Albert Camus

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Colette

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

— Simone Weil

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

— Leo Tolstoy

“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.”<...

“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