Philosophy 1: A Guide through the Subject;

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

— Carl Jung

“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

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

“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

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Simone Weil

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Søren Kierkegaard

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

— Samuel Beckett

“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...

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

“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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Erich Fromm

“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

“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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