Philosophy makes man human

"A man is a 'philosopher' by virtue of being more THOROUGHLY human: he is a 'philosopher' precisely because he possesses and cherishes above the rest of mankind that 'love of wisdom' which is a part of all human nature and because he more reflectively and critically brings to the light and examines the largest and widest implications of the life of all men." - Martin, Clark, Clarke, and Ruddick, A History of Philosophy, pg. 5

Air is the singularity of Nature

"The single quotation preserved from his [Anaximenes] work asserts that, 'just as our soul, being air, holds us together, so do breath and air encompass the whole world.' This contains perhaps a hint why Nature was identified with air. The belief was widespread that the soul - the life principle of living things - was a vaporous substance, maintained during life in the body by respiration and finally exhaled at death only with the last breath. That Nature should be conceived as the self-evolving vital principle of the universe, as we have seen that it was by Milesian Philosophy, meant that the world was being interpreted after the analogy with living beings, and this way in some measure makes more intelligible Anaximenes' doctrine that Nature is air. Condensation and rarefaction are the respiration of a living cosmos; Nature is its breath of life." - Martin, Clark, Ckarke, Ruddick, A History of Philosophy, Pg. 18

The secret for Life

"Man's true vocation is the life of the spirit, the constant search for truth, for the meaning of life."- Anton Chekhov, The House with the Mezzanine, pg. 15

Big government and big corporations serve to enslave

"'To my mind, with things as they are, clinics, schools,  libraries,  dispensaries only serve to enslave people. The peasants are weighed down by a great chain and instead of breaking this chain you're only adding new links - that's what I think.'" - Anton Chekhov, The House with Mezzanine, pg. 13

Be an individual

Alyosha says, "Yes, even if everyone is like that. You be the only one who is not like that. And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment. So do not be like everyone else; even if you are the only one left who is not like that, still do not be like that." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, pg. 558

Love based on Kindred Spirit

"Now I had the chance to meet Luganovich's wife, Anna Alekseyevna. She was still very young then, not more than twenty-two, and her first child had been born six months before. It's all finished now and it's hard for me to say exactly what it was I found so unusual about her, what attracted me so much,but at the time, over dinner, it was all so clear, without a shadow of doubt: here was a young, beautiful, kind, intelligent, enchanting woman, unlike any I'd met before. Immediately I sensed that she was a kindred spirit, someone I knew already, and that her face, with its warm clever eyes, was just like one I had seen before when I was a little boy, in an album lying on my mother's chest of drawers." -Anton Chekhov, About Love, pg. 88

Augustine was definitely not a Behavioralist

"And if love is a substance, it is certainly not body, but spirit; and the mind also is not body, but spirit." -Augustine, On The Trinity, 9.2.2

Principles by which we live in this world

"I shall tell you of an inference  that is plain to me, and that I think  I plainly deduce from all that I have had access to consider of the controversy betwixt uniformity  and liberty of conscience in matters of religion; and it is this, That while the world is the world, we must either suffer the horrible  ignorance,  spiritual  slavery and superstition  of the tenth century  to take place in it, or the infidelity,  heresy, and sects of this century,  and of the last; and that in this case, the only  way wherein a man can walk suitably  to the rules of the gospel,  and his duty therein required  toward the power of the earth, so as to keep himself unspotted from the world, and promote  the eternal welfare of his own soul, and the souls of others, in a preparation  for the world to come, is indeed the congregational way." - John Glas, The Works of Mr. John Glas, pg. 305