Yes, I've received literally hundreds of requests to post my favorite quotations. So, "giving person" that I am, here are a few:
"No matter in how many ways our lives are demonstrated to be insignificant, we can only live them as if they were not." - John Updike, A Month of Sundays
"It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear." - Albert Camus, "An Absurd Reasoning"
"The aim of a liberal education is not to turn out ideal dinner guests who can talk with assurance about practically everything, but people who will not be taken in by men who speak about all things with an air of finality. The goal is not to train future authorities, but men who are not cowed by those who claim to be authorities." - Walter Kaufmann, The Faith of a Heretic
"Western civilization is a man running with increasing speed through an air-sealed tunnel in search of additional oxygen. You can quite reasonably tell him he will survive longer if she slows down, but he is not likely to do it." - Phillip Slater, Earthwalk
"'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true." - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist (or, "Faith is believin' in something that nobody in his right mind would believe"- Archie Bunker, CBS "All in the Family" broadcast)
Ponder those quotations for a while. There will be a short essay exam next Tuesday.
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