Quotes for: heart

Quotes for: heart

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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Hope stole into my heart against my will.
Jean Racine - Phèdre

Hope stole into my heart against my will.

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Great thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.

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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Friedrich Schiller - The Robbers

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Reason does not know the interests of the heart.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

Each one sees what he carries in his heart.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

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It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll

With most people the heart grows old with the body.
Guy de Maupassant

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches,
And here is my heart which beats only for you.
Paul Verlaine - Green

Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town.
Paul Verlaine - Il pleure dans mon coeur

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We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

The conviction of the mind does not always bring along with it that of the heart.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

Intelligence is the eye of the soul, not its strength. Its strength is in the heart, that is, in the passions.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

The heart is the key of the world and of life.
Novalis

The heart is the key of the world and of life.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus

Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Marcel Proust

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx

Virtue is in the heart, and nowhere else.
Voltaire - Les Lettres d'Amabed

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela

The heart has mysteries which no reasoning can penetrate.
Guy de Maupassant

What goes against the heart, the head does not let in.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation

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In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions; so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

The mind is often at the heart that what the library of a castle is to the master's person.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

If there is a pure love, exempt from the mixture of our other passions, it is that which is concealed at the bottom of the heart and of which even ourselves are ignorant.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims