Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - Buboquote.com

The mysterious way leads inwards. Eternity with its worlds — the past and future — is in ourselves or nowhere.

Novalis - Pollen /

Writing is hard work. The fact that I love doing it doesn't make it less hard work.

writing

The individual soul should be in agreement with the world soul.

Novalis - Fragments /

soul

Without music there can be no perfect knowledge, for there is nothing without it. For even the universe itself is said to have been put together with a certain harmony of sounds, and the very heavens revolve under the guidance of harmony.

Isidore of Seville

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

Jean Cocteau - Le Coq et l’Arlequin

The highest life is mathematics.

Novalis - Fragments /

life

It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black.

freedom

I detest racialism because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

To imagine is to raise the real by a tone.

Gaston Bachelard /

imagination

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.

idea

Amiable weaknesses of human nature.

Edward Gibbon - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

All our virtues depend on the faculty of the senses, and on the degree to which external things affect us.

India is Gandhi's country of birth; South Africa his country of adoption. He was both an Indian and a South African citizen. Both countries contributed to his intellectual and moral genius, and he shaped the liberatory movements in both colonial theaters.

genius

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

poverty

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

He who wonders discovers that this is in itself a wonder.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

I consider one of the most important duties of any scientist the teaching of science to students and to the general public.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Jean Cocteau - Le Coq et l’Arlequin

History is indeed little more than the register of crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

habit

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

love

Beware of anyone who wants to order things. To regulate is always to make oneself master of the others by hampering them.

Denis Diderot /

order

The best way to describe anyone is to give an example of the kind of thing he would do.

Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World.

Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.

The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

Every person born into this world has a natural right to sustain, preserve, and defend his own life to the best of his ability.

Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron /

life

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

thought

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