Quotes

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
- David March

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
- E. B. White

 Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

- Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
US black nationalist leader (1925 - 1965)

Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.

–Arthur Schopenhauer

The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.
- Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965), From a lecture




Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. 

- Paul Tillich

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
- Paul Tillich

The first duty of love is to listen.
- Paul Tillich

 Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.
- Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity. 

Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)