Great Philosophical thoughts...

"..Man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, in other respects he is free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does." "I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing."

Jean-Paul Sarte

"To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."

Oscar Wilde

"Thus, the man who becomes aware of himself through the cogito also perceives all others, and he perceives them as the condition of his own existence.... In order to get any truth about myself, I must have contact with another person. The other is indispensible to my own existence, as well as to my knowledge about myself. This being so, in discovering my inner being I discover the other person at the same time, like a freedom placed in front of me which thi nks and wills only for or against me. Hence let us at once announce the discovery of a world which we shall call intersubjectivity; this is the world in which man decides what he is and what others are."

Jean-Paul Sarte

"The important thing is to stop lying to yourself. A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself as well as for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal, in satisfying his vices."

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The grace of sweet companionship, the charm of pleasant conversation, that terpnon kakon as the Greeks called it, and all those gentle humanities that make life lovely, and are an accompaniment to life as m usic might be, keeping things in tune and filling with melody the harsh or silent places."

Oscar Wilde

"That's the way it should be -- love should come before logic, just as you said. Only then will man be able to understand the meaning of life."

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The delight of reading: that has not grown dull. I am still wonderstruck by that metamorphosis of little black marks into a word -- a word that projects me into a particular world ot that brings this world within the four walls of my room....my surroundings disappear and I am no longer aware of myself: all that exists is the black and white of the pages before my eyes.... Reading alone creates new and lasting relationships between things and myself; and it does so with a striking economy of means -- just thi s one volume in my hand. I like losing all awareness of myself when I read."

Simone de Beauvoir