“I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream…” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“To become the spectator of one’s life, as Harry says, is to escape the suffering of life.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Skepticism is not irrefutable, but obviously nonsensical, when it tries to raise doubts where no questions can be asked. For doubt can exist only where a question exists, a question only where an answer exists, and an answer only where something can be said.” Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.” Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The intelligent man is not the man who holds such-and-such views but the man who has sound reasons for what he believes and yet does not believe it dogmatically.” Bertrand Russell
“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.” Bertrand Russell
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus ! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t.” Charles Bukowski
“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.” Charles de Montesquieu
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