“Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?”

“If that is what this world is, what humans are… There is no future. Understanding and faith… If you take those away, all that's left is fear. I can't accept immoral methods or giving up.”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.”

Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978) Vice-President of the USA under Lyndon B. Johnson

“Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.”

Peter Singer book Animal Liberation

“Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.”

Zygmunt Bauman book Globalizace: důsledky pro člověka

“Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.”

Marilyn Hacker (1942) American writer

“Art’s true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.”

Martin Firrell (1963) British artist and activist

“For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

“There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer