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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Immanuel Kant

“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 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

“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

— Wallace Stevens

“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.”<...

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Albert Camus

“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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Epictetus

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

— Simone Weil

“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

“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

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

— Ernest Hemingway