“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates     “By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates     “I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.” – Socrates     “Be as you wish to seem.” – Socrates   “To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning…

“If women want rights more than they got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.” ― Sojourner Truth     “I’m not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.” ― Sojourner Truth     “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t…

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard     “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” ― Soren Kierkegaard     “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” ― Søren Kierkegaard     “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” ― Søren Kierkegaard     “People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.” ― Søren Kierkegaard     “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be…