Ernst Bloch

"Kindness is the recognition of shared incompleteness."

"Solitude is where we commune with our highest possibilities."

"Gratitude opens the door to what we might yet become."

"Creativity is the naming of what has not yet been named."

"In relationships, we are mirrors of each other's potential."

"Inspiration is what happens when possibility calls to us."

"War is the failure to imagine alternatives."

"Political action without utopian vision is mere adjustment."

"Literature preserves the conversations we have not yet had."

"The dialectic of history is the struggle between what is and what might be."

"Happiness is not a state, but the direction of becoming."

"Success is measured by whether we have enlarged human possibility."

"Friendship is the conscious choice to complete each other."

"Family teaches us that we are bound to others before we know it."

"Truth is not static; it is the process of becoming true."

"Time is the substance of hope and the matter of freedom."

"The human being is always a work in progress."

"We are historical beings, but we are not slaves to history."

"The concrete universal is the dream that knows it dreams."

"What distinguishes us is not that we hope, but that we hope consciously."

"The mediation of the immediate is the task of thought."

"Education is the process of making the latent manifest."

"Ideology claims the future is already written; hope says it is not."

"Change is the only permanence; those who resist it resist life itself."

"Art is the rehearsal of the world as it could be."

"The scientific attitude is wonder in the face of nature."

"Music is organized hope."

"Faith without works is hope without becoming."

"A true leader multiplies other leaders, not followers."

"Work that does not transform the worker is not true work."