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Right from the beginning, to me the point of architecture, has actually been to show people that even if you are poor, you do not need to live in misery.

Elisabeth Faure - La maison en A /

Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence.

Martin Luther King Jr. /

If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer... And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.

Hannah Arendt /

There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another... The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.

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That's what a genius is: an intelligence that knows its limits.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare - As you like it /

One of the basic rules of the Universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

Stephen Hawking /

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley /

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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 /

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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 /

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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.

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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 /

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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 /

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

William James /

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