Christian Philosophy by Étienne Gilson

“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 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

“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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“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

“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.”<...

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

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Will Durant

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“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

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

— Colette

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Albert Camus