Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - Buboquote.com

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Katherine Mansfield /

Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing — between two fictions.

to be

We are all travellers. And this journey is life.

Christiane Singer /

Art is a way of viewing things independently from the principle of sufficient reason.

Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation /

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

universe

My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

William James /

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King Jr. /

Repetition is the mother of learning.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus ? - Quotation of uncertain origin /

to learn

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words.

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

Bertrand Russell /

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit – to the ‚conquest‘ of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.

Our wants and pleasures have their origin in society; we therefore measure them in relation to society; we do not measure them in relation to the objects which serve for their gratification. Since they are of a social nature, they are of a relative nature.

Karl Marx - Wage Labour and Capital /

society

Among the greatest discoveries that the human mind has made in recent times belongs the art of judging books without having read them.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg /

If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.

clarity

It takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

Seneca - De Brevitate vitæ /

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - The Learned Women /

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.

The maxim of mercy is this: when you are unable to love, at least cease to hate.

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

Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.

George Orwell /

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.

It's easier to dominate a people by exciting their passions than by looking after their interests.

Gustave Le Bon /

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

The only way to want, is to act.

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

The essential has never required the least talent.

talent

Body am I, and soul'–so says the child. And why should one not speak like children?

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

peace

People who read only the classics are sure to remain up-to-date.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach /

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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