“It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.”

“Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.”

“She is like a meteor shooting off by itself, traveling through space, knowing no bounds, who knows ehere eventually to come to ground, on another planet or back on our earth again, or to disappear ...”

“Capital dictates the fate of humanity.”

“People must be just and fair, starting with what they thought.”

“You must first of all think justly. Don’t sit in judgment over others when you don’t know the truth of the matter.”

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.”

“To love somebody is not just a strong feeling -- it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise," writes psychologist Erich Fromm. "If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the...”

“... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you have no right to pronounce upon what a country does, which has been...”

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”