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“Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.”
― Henri Bergson

“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator

“Your educators can only be your liberators.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations

“There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator

“Any human being who does not wish to be part of the masses need only stop making things easy for himself. Let him follow his conscience, which calls out to him: “Be yourself! All that you are now doing, thinking, desiring, all that is not you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator

“Everything that can be denied, deserves to be denied; and real sincerity means the belief in a state of things which cannot be denied, or in which there is no lie. The sincere man feels that his activity has a metaphysical meaning. It can only be explained by the laws of a different and a higher life; it is in the deepest sense an affirmation: even if everything that he does seem utterly opposed to the laws of our present life.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator

“Most books are born from the smoke and vapour of the brain: and to vapour and smoke may they well return. For having no fire within themselves, they shall be visited with fire.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator

“How can we “find ourselves” again? How can man “know himself”? He is a thing obscure and veiled. If the hare has seven skins, man can cast from him seventy times seven skins, and not be able to say: “Here you truly are; there is skin no more.”

Also this digging into oneself, this straight, violent descent into the pit of one’s being, is a troublesome and dangerous business to start. You may easily take such hurt, that no doctor can heal you. And what is the point: since everything bears witness to our essence — our friendships and enmities, our looks and greetings, our memories and forgetfulnesses, our books and our writing!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator

“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“The history of the distribution of wealth has always been deeply political, and it cannot be reduced to purely economic mechanisms.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“If God does not exist, are we provided with any values or commands that could legitimise our behaviour.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

“The distance between the being and the conscience is the nothing”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

“No doctrine is more optimistic [than existentialism], since it declares that man's destiny lies within himself.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

“Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of and the value of it is nothing else but the sense that you choose.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.”
― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

“Reason is man’s faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man’s ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man’s instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man’s instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.”
― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

“Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.”
― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

“There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“The more man understands and masters nature the less he needs to use religion as a scientific explanation and as a magical device for controlling nature.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

“تحالف الدين من جهة مع السلطة السياسية , أصبح بالضرورة ديناً تسلطياً والخطيئة الحقيقية للانسان هي إغترابه عن نفسه واذعانه للقوة على نفسه حتى لو كان ذلك تحت قناع عبادة الأله”
― إيرك فروم, التحليل النفسي والدين

“Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues....”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“العنصر الجوهرى في الدين التسلطى هو الاستسلام لقوة تعلو على الانسان , والفضيلة الأساسية في هذا النمط من الدين هي الطاعة, والخطيئة الكبرى هي العصيان .”
― إيرك فروم, التحليل النفسي والدين

“If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.”
― Albert Einstein, On Humanism

“The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.”
― Albert Einstein, Essays in Humanism

“It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it,”
― Albert Einstein, Essays in Humanism

“The noble soul reveres itself”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“There is equality where all are slaves, as well as where all are free. This shows that equality, by itself, is not enough to make a good society.”
― Bertrand Russell, Authority and the Individual