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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.”
― David Hume

“A friend of Diagoras pointed out an expensive display of votive gifts and said, 'You think the gods have no care for man? Why, you can see from all these votive pictures here how many people have escaped the fury of storms at sea by praying to the gods who have brought them safe to harbor.'

To which Diagoras replied, 'Yes, indeed, but where are the pictures of all those who suffered shipwreck and perished in the waves?”
― Diagoras of Melos

“دلم هوای خزان کرده ست
دلم هوای کوچ پرنده های غریب
و پا به پای تمام نقوش بی زاری
دلم هوای پژمردن کرده ست
چه بی تفاوتی تلخی
دلم هوای مردن کرده ست
کجاست یار؟
کجاست ظلمت؟
- بیغوله؟
کوچه؟
تنهایی
دلم هوار مردن کرده است.”
― علی باباچاهی, صدای شعر امروز

“آری ان روز چو میرفت کسی
داشتم امدنش را باور
من نمیدانستم معنی هرگز را
تو چرا بازنگشتی دیگر”
― هوشنگ ابتهاج

“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”
― Diogenes of Sinope

“I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.”
― Cesare Pavese

“An atheist is a man who does not believe the existence of a God; now, no one can be certain of the existence of a being whom he does not conceive, and who is said to unite incompatible qualities.”
― Baron d'Holbach, The System of Nature

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“But then I knew better than anyone how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was really inside. I knew how grief could make you behave in ways you couldn't even begin to understand.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.”
― Marya Mannes

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Death is the veil which those who live call life;
They sleep, and it is lifted.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound