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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
François de La Rochefoucauld /





It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw /





A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Victor Hugo /





A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard /





The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.
Gustave Flaubert /





To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
Hannah Arendt /





Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery /





The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein /





The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
Sigmund Freud /





Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach /





There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
Soren Kierkegaard /





Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Voltaire /





Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Mark Twain /





Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
Marcus Aurelius /





As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero /





The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
Noam Chomsky /





Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero /





Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein /





Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
Alfred Adler /





The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin /





Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi /





The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein /





Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
Jean-Paul Sartre /





Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Soren Kierkegaard /





Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer /





Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw /





For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
Honore de Balzac /





It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Charles de Montesquieu /





The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
Voltaire /





To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso /






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