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

— Søren Kierkegaard

“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

“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...

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

“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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“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.”<...

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

— Will Durant

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Colette

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Leo Rosten