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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Anne Tyler

“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

“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.”<...

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

— Leo Rosten

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

“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

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Epictetus

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Vincent van Gogh

“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

“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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