Truls Ljungström

“We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“How fleeting, how brief, how fragile is the life of a man, and how subject to misfortune, assailed already by a multitude of diseases and accidents, buildings which collapse, shipwrecks, earthquakes, lightning! We do not need to add war to our woes, and yet it causes more woe than all the others.”
― Erasmus, The Education of a Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

“Spar Dödlige dina tårar, stäng plågan i ett tåligt bröst; förkväv det hopp din högmod dårar, vart når din matta klagoröst?

Ur "En stadig man", en etisk dikt av Kellgren.”
― Johan Henric Kellgren, Skrifter (Svenska klassiker)