David Freitas

“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, 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.

“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

“Ask nature: she will tell you that she made both day and night.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic