1. “Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.”
2. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
3. “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
4. “Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
5. “At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.”
6. “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
7. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
8. “Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”
9. “During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.”
10. “Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”
11. “The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
12. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
13. “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
14. “If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
15. “The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.”
