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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
John Stuart Mill - On Liberty / 





Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations / 





True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom / 



True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

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“But he has nothing on at all,” said a little child at last.
Hans Christian Andersen - The Emperor's New Clothes / 





In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Torquato Tasso / 





The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 





To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.
Emanuel Swedenborg / 





A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon - Essays / 





All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince / 





It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield / 





Often the fear of one evil leads us into a worse.
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux - L'Art poétique / 





Change alone is the constant.
Arthur Schopenhauer - Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life / 





As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Citadelle / 





One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
Paul Valéry - Tel quel / 



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

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections / 





The sun is new each day.
Heraclitus of Ephesus - Fragments / 



The sun is new each day.



Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy / 



Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.



The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.
Albert Camus - Carnets / 





Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Epictetus - Handbook (Enchiridion) / 





The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts - The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety / 





I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.
Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus / 





But where the danger is,
also grows the saving power.
Friedrich Hölderlin - Patmos / 





I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet / 



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

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The greatest disorder of the mind is to believe certain things because we want them to be such and not because we have seen what they are.
Jacques Bénigne Bossuet - Treatise on the Knowledge of God and of Oneself / 





Universal Nature has made reasonable creatures for the sake of one another.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.
Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America / 





Nothing is ever finished ; only a little happiness is needed for everything to begin again.
Émile Zola - Germinal / 





To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
William Blake - Auguries of Innocence / 





Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.
Paulo Coelho / 





Though men be much governed by interest; yet even interest itself, and all human affairs, are entirely governed by opinion.
David Hume - Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary / 






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