Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
No reality transforms itself.
In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.
For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.
An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah. ” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.
The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.
A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)
This morning my soul is greater than the world since it possesses You, You whom heaven and earth do not contain