Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - Buboquote.com

There is no need to wait to be saved to be human.

André Comte-Sponville - L'esprit de l'athéisme /

By your actions, you give me reason to believe you.

Publius Terentius Afer /

action

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

Henry David Thoreau /

beauty

Action is decision, a choice, but it is also a wager.

No, no, you are not thinking, you are just being logical.

It is a great aim of prudence never to be embarrassed. It is the sign of a real man, of a noble heart, for magnanimity is not easily put out.

Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom /

Let's not be English, French or German any more. Let's be European. No, not European, let's be men. Let's be humanity. All we have to do is get rid of one last piece of egocentricity - patriotism.

Where laws prevail, there can the people prevail.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

law

I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable, if tasted in the house.

Henry David Thoreau /

thought

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

Charles de Gaulle /

And knows that to win without danger is to win without glory.

Seneca - De Providentia /

danger

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Henry David Thoreau /

Whenever the true objects of action appear, they are to be heartily sought. Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Heraclitus of Ephesus /

He who controls himself once can always control himself.

Pierre Corneille /

oneself

Cleopatra's nose: if it had been shorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

To choose an adviser is nevertheless to commit oneself by that choice.

Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism /

to choose

There are two classes of poets — the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

One does not know completely a science as long as one does not know its history.

Auguste Comte - Course of Positive Philosophy /

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

The mind of man is so framed that it is rather taken with the false colors than truth.

Desiderius Erasmus - In Praise of Folly /

To me men are for what they are, They wear no masks with me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

The function of a writer is to call a spade a spade. If words are sick, it is up to us to cure them.

Jean-Paul Sartre /

As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity.
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber
Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
So one generation of men will grow while another dies.

Homer - Iliad /

Naught exists just as much as Aught.

Democritus - Fragments /

Each of us has the potential to contribute… You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama /

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Henry David Thoreau /

Every movement takes time and is for the sake of an end.

Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics /

Modern technology's golden promises have turned into a threat.

Hans Jonas - The Imperative of Responsibility /

To travel is to live.

Hans Christian Andersen - The fairy tale of my life /

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