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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

— Will Durant

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Colette

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”

— Margaret Atwood

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

— George Orwell

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Immanuel Kant

“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

“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...

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Albert Camus