Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - Buboquote.com

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

Guillaume Apollinaire /

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

George Orwell - Animal Farm /

The heart has mysteries which no reasoning can penetrate.

Guy de Maupassant /

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray /

I told myself that as long as there were books I could be sure of being happy.

Simone de Beauvoir - Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter /

Thus, down to the time of Gutenberg, architecture is the principal writing, the universal writing.

Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame /

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus /

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.

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To be is to be perceived or to perceive.

George Berkeley /

To be is to be perceived or to perceive.

It is a thousand times easier to do good than to do it well.

Charles de Montesquieu - The Spirit of the Laws /

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Among all the different expressions which may render one of our thoughts, only one is the right one.

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

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I venture to declare that a state of reflection is a state contrary to nature, and that a thinking man is a depraved animal.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men /

I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.

Eyes are the windows of the soul.

Hildegard of Bingen /

Play is experimenting with chance.

Novalis - Fragments /

I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.

Nelson Mandela - Long Walk to Freedom /

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist /

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Novalis - Pollen /

Inside, you've got heaven and earth.

Hildegard of Bingen /

Man knows much more than he understands.

To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.

Gottfried Leibniz /

Philosophy: Should always be snickered at.

Gustave Flaubert - Dictionary of Received Ideas /

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The key to every man is his thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

Good is not something to contemplate; it is something to be done.

André Comte-Sponville - A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues /

Never is done tomorrow what is not done today
And one should let no day slip by.
With resolution seize the possible straightway
By forelock and with quick, courageous trust;
Then holding fast you will not let it further fly
And you will labour on because you must.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy /

What goes against the heart, the head does not let in.

Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation /

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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation /

Let there be truth between us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Iphigenia in Tauris /

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