Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - Buboquote.com

If all things were turned to smoke, the nostrils would distinguish them.

Heraclitus of Ephesus /

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

Confucius - Analects /

Even if I knew that the world would end tomorrow, I would still plant an apple tree today.

Martin Luther /

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King Jr. /

In old age, a man is agreeable if his manner is pleasant and his speech serious.

Democritus - Fragments /

A man always describes himself unconsciously whenever he describes anyone else.

George Bernard Shaw /

The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.

Erwin Schrödinger /

Nothing is as valuable to a man as courage.

Publius Terentius Afer /

courage

There is today perhaps no more firmly credited prejudice than this: that one knows what really constitutes the moral.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Dawn /

Learn as if you will never catch up, as though you are afraid of losing whatever you have already understood.

Confucius - Analects /

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

With each heavy storm of rain
⁠Change comes o'er thy valley fair;
Once, alas! but not again
⁠Can the same stream hold thee e'er.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Dauer im Wechsel /

change

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate.

Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus /

The struggle for world peace is the greatest battle of all.

peace

There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

George Orwell /

It is not the title that honors the man, but the man that honors the title.

Niccolo Machiavelli /

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.

William Shakespeare - Henry IV, Part 2 /

king

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born.

George Bernard Shaw /

Every great philosophy... as a whole says always only: this is the image of all life, and from this learn the meaning of your life.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /

Happiness is a rarer vocation than people suppose.

Simone de Beauvoir /

happiness

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James /

Don't just hope, learn to want.

André Comte-Sponville - Le bonheur : visions occidentale et chinoise. /

But I, being poor, have only my dreams.

William Butler Yeats /

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.

Benjamin Disraeli /

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

Confucius - Doctrine of the Mean /

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

William Shakespeare - Merry Wives of Windsor. /

We must then meditate on the things that make our happiness, seeing that when that is with us we have all, but when it is absent we do all to win it.

Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus /

You can! Just will it!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy /

will

Blessed is he who has overcome all passions and then proceeds energetically to perform his duties under all circumstances careless of success! Let the motive lie in the deed, not in the outcome.

Ludwig van Beethoven /

We are born human, and later we become truly human.

André Comte-Sponville - Dictionnaire philosophique /

Man

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