Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - Buboquote.com

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 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

Life in a foreign country teaches self-sufficiency; for bread and bed are the sweetest cures for hunger and fatigue.

Democritus - Fragments /

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.

Plato - Phaedo /

Nature is the best guide of a good life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero /

Let your desires be governed by reason.

Marcus Tullius Cicero /

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

Confucius - Analects /

Happiness — how little there is that suffices for happiness !

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols /

happiness

Montaigne’s wisdom: to love life in spite of everything.

André Comte-Sponville - Dictionnaire philosophique /

We see that a paradigm — that is, the roots of a principle of knowledge — can shed light on certain aspects of reality, while blinding us to others.

Edgar Morin - Paroles philosophiques /

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

death

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles /

A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work.

The more a class of beings possesses the faculty of contemplation, the more it enjoys happiness, not as an accidental concomitant of contemplation but as inherent in it, since contemplation is valuable in itself. It follows that happiness is some form of contemplation.

Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics /

We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

A man can die but once.

William Shakespeare - Henry IV, Part 2 /

Everything is ordered in things once and for all, with as much order and agreement as possible.

Gottfried Leibniz - Principes de la nature et de la grâce /

order

The profit of one man is the damage of another.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

others

But, what good is all of this light when people either have no eyes or deliberately shut those they have?

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg /

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Emil Cioran - Aveux et anathèmes /

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

Henry David Thoreau /

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach /

I would not wish to live in a world where I could not express my honest opinions. Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men.

Robert Green Ingersoll /

freedom of expression

Experience by itself is not science.

Edmund Husserl /

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