Quotations

_ – About ingratitude
_ – About the paradox of tolerance
_ – About mourningAbout ingratitude

Ingratitude towards one’s benefactor is, according to the common judgment of mankind, one of the most odious and hateful vices; and yet our species is so notorious for it, that everyone holds it for likely that he may create himself enemies by his benefits.

Immanuel Kant

About the paradox of tolerance

If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

Karl Popper

About mourning

It is a matter of accepting what it is and hence also what it is not any longer, and of loving it just like that, in its truth, in its eternity. It is a question of passing through the huge pain of loss to the sweetness of memory, from the mourning we must carry out to the one we have already undergone (the grateful memory of what has been lost), from amputation to acceptance, from suffering to joy, from heartbreaking love to soothing love. The work of mourning is one of gratitude.

André Comte-Sponville