Quotes for: to be

Quotes for: to be

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

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Become who you are!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
Niccolo Machiavelli

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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
Simone Weil

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.
Pindar - Pythian Odes

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Tell yourself, first of all, what kind of man you want to be; and then go ahead with what you are doing.
Epictetus

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Only he who loves something is something; to be nothing and to love nothing are identical.
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Epicurus

I think, therefore I am.
René Descartes - Discourse on the Method

Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.
Fernando Pessoa

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
Meister Eckhart

Sometimes I think. Sometimes I am.
Paul Valéry - Tel quel

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
Karl Marx

Man is the shepherd of Being.
Martin Heidegger

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus - The Rebel

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Language is the house of the truth of Being.
Martin Heidegger

Everything that was is no longer; everything that will be is not yet. Look no further for the secret of our ills.
Alfred de Musset

To be is to be perceived or to perceive.
George Berkeley

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We do not do what we want and nonetheless we are responsible for what we are.
Jean-Paul Sartre

For if I am deceived, I am.
Augustine of Hippo - The City of God

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I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.
Henry David Thoreau

I am not what I once was.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Gabrielle Chasnel, dîte Coco Chanel