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

— Will Durant

“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

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

— Vincent van Gogh

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Anne Tyler

“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

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Søren Kierkegaard

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“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

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Immanuel Kant