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When we work for material ends alone, we build ourselves our own prison.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Wind, Sand and Stars / 





Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan Watts / 





Every effect is an event different from its cause.
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / 





A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde / 





What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





One light of the Sun, even though it be sundered by walls, by mountains, by a myriad other barriers.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





Why are there beings at all, and why not rather nothing? That is the question.
Martin Heidegger / 





The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 





The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
Alan Watts / 





There is no shame in preferring happiness.
Albert Camus - The Plague / 





The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years / 





Life is short, but boredom makes it longer.
Jules Renard / 





The enlightenment of understanding makes man smarter, but not better.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel / 





Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères / 





Time is the notion of 'before and after'.
Erwin Schrödinger - Mind and Matter / 





One cannot imagine how much wit is necessary in order never to seem ridiculous.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell - Animal Farm / 





Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Ludwig van Beethoven / 





Life cannot go on without a great deal of forgetting.
Honore de Balzac - Scenes from Parisian life / 





War is an evil which dishonours mankind.
François Fénelon / 





The real name of happiness is contentment.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel - Journal intime / 





If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell - Politics and the English Language / 





Bad shepherds ruin their flocks!
Homer - Odyssey / 





Freedom has been wholly interpreted as a right, as a thing which people are entitled to claim, whereas what it really is above all is an obligation and a duty.
Nikolai Berdyaev / 





In truth, the path does not matter, the will to achieve is enough.
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus / 





They became wise too late.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / 





Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations / 





The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Seneca / 





The secret of being boring is to tell everything.
Voltaire / 





If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
Alan Watts - The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety / 






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