“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.”<...

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Epictetus

“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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“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

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

— Doris Lessing

“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...

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

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Colette

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Will Durant