“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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“Cato . . . used to assert, also, that wise men profited more by fools, than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.”

― Plutarch, Parallel Lives

“We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is matter of faith, and above reason.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

“If your little savage were left to fend for himself, if he kept all his natural artlessness and then united the minimal reasoning power of an infant with the violent passions of a man of thirty, he'd strangle his father and bed his mother.”

― Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew

“Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously. They are all forced, and it is the duty of every honest man to ignore them.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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