1. “All great literature is one of the two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
2. “Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”
3. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
4. “Happiness does not depend on outward tings, but on the way we see them.”
5. “To get rid of an enemy one must love him.”
6. “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
7. “When you love someone, you love the personas they are, and not as you’d like them to be.”
8. “If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.”
9. “The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.”
10. “If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
11. “If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
12. “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
13. “We lost because we told ourselves we lost.”
14. “Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.”
15. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
16. “Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”
17. “To tell truth is very difficult and young people are rarely capable of it.”
18. “Nothing so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent woman.”
19. “A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”
20. “You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
