César García

“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Oh literature is a wonderful thing, Varenka, a very wonderful thing: I discovered that from being with those people the day before yesterday. It is a profound thing. It strengthens people’s hearts and instructs them,… Literature is a picture, or rather in a certain sense both a picture and a mirror; it is an expression of emotion, a subtle form of criticism, a didactic lesson and a document…”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Poor Folk

“Cada vez que alguien cometa una falta contra ti, medita al punto que concepto del mal o del bien tenia al cometer dicha falta.
Porque, una vez que hayas examinado eso, tendrás compasión de él y ni te sorprenderás ni te irritarás con él ya que comprenderás tú también el mismo concepto del bien que él, u otro similar en consecuencia es preciso que le perdones pero aun si no llegas a compartir su concepto del bien y del mal, serás mas fácilmente benévolo con su extravío”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground