David Freitas

“We have, of course, this continuity, but we are conscious of something more; we have, as no animal or plant has, the power of self-reflection and we can see in ourselves something more than a mere continuity of identity.”
― Aelred Watkin, Resurrection Is Now: how death is not only an end but a beginning, and how to live life as a preparation for death and resurrection.

“Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“We have only to reflect upon the fact that no human being can be a substitute for another, a fact of which love makes us sharply aware with its impelling desire for a unique relationship with a unique person, to realise what this means and to discover that we have here something not met with in the rest of nature; that we are dealing with a uniqueness which goes far beyond mere individuation of bodies or mere differences of appearance and behaviour.”
― Aelred Watkin, Resurrection Is Now: how death is not only an end but a beginning, and how to live life as a preparation for death and resurrection.

“To philosophize is to think without the benefit of proof (if proof exists, it is no longer philosophy),
which is not to say that any thought and all ways of thinking are, philosophically speaking, equally valid.”
― Comte-Sponville André, Kleine verhandeling over de grote deugden