Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - Buboquote.com

There is no real action without will.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

Art aims at impressing feelings on us rather than expressing them;

Henri Bergson - Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness /

The first sigh of childhood is for liberty.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Claude Debussy /

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela /

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

One characteristic of the symbol is that it is never wholly arbitrary; it is not empty, for there is the rudiment of a natural bond between the signifier and the signified. The symbol of justice, a pair of scales, could not be replaced by just any other symbol, such as a chariot.

Ferdinand de Saussure - Course in General Linguistics /

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon /

Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway /

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

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Where does this idea come from? It is like a pair of glasses on our nose through which we see whatever we look at. It never occurs to us to take them off.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations /

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Are you a new strength and a new right? A first motion? A self-rolling wheel? Can you even compel the stars to revolve around you?

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

When you have time you have freedom.

Guillaume Apollinaire /

In the happiness of others I seek my own.

Pierre Corneille - Le Cid /

When we work for material ends alone, we build ourselves our own prison.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Wind, Sand and Stars /

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

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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.

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 /

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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.

There is no shame in preferring happiness.

Albert Camus - The Plague /

Men have great pretensions and little schemes.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years /

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Life is short, but boredom makes it longer.

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 /

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