“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...

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Anne Tyler

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Carl Jung

“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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Albert Camus

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

— George Orwell

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Søren Kierkegaard

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“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

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Will Durant