“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
— Albert Camus
“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”
— Erich Fromm
“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”
— Margaret Atwood
“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.”
— Edward R. Murrow
“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
— Will Durant
“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
— Immanuel Kant
“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
— Anne Tyler
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
— Samuel Beckett
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
— Bertrand Russell
“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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“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”
— Erich Maria Remarque
“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.”<...
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”
— Simone Weil
“Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”
— George Orwell
“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”
— Miguel de Unamuno
“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre