Quote of Arthur Rimbaud - I saw that all beings are...

Biography - Arthur Rimbaud:

French poet.
Born: 1854 - Died: 1891
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Arthur Rimbaud

Translation

(French)

Je vis que tous les êtres ont une fatalité de bonheur : l'action n'est pas la vie, mais une façon de gâcher quelque force, un énervement. La morale est la faiblesse de la cervelle.

Arthur Rimbaud

Quotes about life:

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

Man arrives a novice at every age of life.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca - De Vita Beata

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

life

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.

Blanche Pierson

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

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Quotes about happiness:

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca - De Vita Beata

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.

Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu

Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.

Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Jeremy Bentham

happiness

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

All about happiness...

Quotes about action:

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.

Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

Paul Valéry - Tel quel

action

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant - Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Henri Bergson

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Quotes for: morality

We have need of morality only for want of love.

André Comte-Sponville

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

morality

All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées

Give and take pleasure, without harming yourself or anyone else — that, I think, sums up morality.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

morality

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Immanuel Kant

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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Quotes about weakness:

No man is weak by choice.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Theodor W. Adorno

What is tolerance? It is the endowment of humanity. We are all steeped in weakness and error; let us forgive each other our stupidities, that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi

All about weakness...

Arthur Rimbaud also said...

It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.

Arthur Rimbaud - L'Éternité

I is another.

Arthur Rimbaud

Today I know how to salute beauty.

Arthur Rimbaud - Une saison en enfer

beauty

I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses.

Arthur Rimbaud

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

Arthur Rimbaud

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Arthur Rimbaud

love

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