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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Colette

“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

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Anne Tyler

“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

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

— Erich Fromm

“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.”<...

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Simone Weil

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Leo Rosten