Karl Theodor Jaspers
View AuthorTo philosophize is and only is to learn how to die.
Karl Theodor Jaspers
View AuthorIn philosophy, the questions are more essential than the answers.
Thomas Jefferson
View AuthorIt is not possible to live without books.
Thomas Jefferson
View AuthorAdvocate, my dear companion, for a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law of educating the common people.
Lindsay Kemp
View AuthorI never read novels or essays, but biographies. For me, a man's life is more important than his dreams on paper.
Thomas à Kempis
View AuthorOne who truly has a clear conscience will easily be happy and at peace.
Thomas à Kempis
View AuthorI have sought tranquility everywhere, and I have only found it sitting in a secluded corner, with a book in my hands.
Thomas à Kempis
View AuthorThe humble knowledge of oneself is a safer path to God than the path of science.
Fernando Savater
View AuthorIt is better to know after having thought and discussed than to accept knowledge that no one discusses in order to avoid having to think.
Fernando Savater
View AuthorThe secret of happiness is to have simple tastes and a complex mind, the problem is that often the mind is simple and the tastes are complex.
Fernando Savater
View AuthorThere is no education if there is no truth to transmit, if everything is more or less true, if everyone has their equally respectable truth and one cannot rationally decide among such diversity.
Jean Baptiste Say
View AuthorIt remains humiliating for a person of wit to know that there is no fool who cannot teach them something.