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

— Carl Jung

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

— Colette

“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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Orwell

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Samuel Beckett

“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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“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

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Will Durant

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Erich Fromm