“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth ― only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.”
― C.S. Lewis
“In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.”
― G.K. Chesterton
“All people suffer, but […] not all people pity themselves.”
― Marcus Aurelius
"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."
― Chinese proverb
"Men's hatred for the one who has been unjust to them is trifling compared to their hatred for the one they have treated unjustly; every reminder of him brings a fresh twinge of pain."
― Paul Mankowski
"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk."
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Let your credo be this. Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me."
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn