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True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Albert Camus - Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1957 /

Freedom of opinion is a farce unless factual information is guaranteed.

Hannah Arendt /

freedom of expression

A property, of the rational soul is love of one's neighbour.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

One should, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

F. Scott Fitzgerald /

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.

Marcel Proust - La Prisonnière /

While we wait for life, life passes.

Suppose a man can convince me of error and bring home to me that I am mistaken in thought or act; I shall be glad to alter, for the truth is what I pursue, and no one was ever injured by the truth, whereas he is injured who continues in his own self-deception and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

The virtuous rest in virtue.

Confucius - Analects /

virtue

Happiness is the purpose of philosophy, but not its criterion.

André Comte-Sponville - Le bonheur : visions occidentale et chinoise. /

The philosopher should never forget that he is cultivating an art and not a science.

Arthur Schopenhauer /

The philosopher should never forget that he is cultivating an art and not a science.

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Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas: its aim is to approach truth by successive approximations.

Bertrand Russell - ABC of Relativity /

Morality answers the question, “What should I do?”
Ethics answers the question, “How should I live?”

André Comte-Sponville - Présentations de la philosophie /

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

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées /

morality

We live to know and to know ourselves.

Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom /

One thought, fills immensity.

William Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell /

Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.

William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing /

A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

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A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

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My happiness is to increase other people's. To be happy myself I need the happiness of all.

André Gide - Fruits of the Earth /

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Albert Einstein - The World as I See It /

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray /

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods /

In all intense joy there is a feeling of gratitude.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach /

There is measure in all things.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Satires /

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods /

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Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach /

The art of living well, is of all the arts the greatest.

Marcus Tullius Cicero /

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privilege but of responsibilities.

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

Henry David Thoreau /

Never forget that it will be enough for a political, economic or religious crisis for the rights of women to be called into question. These rights are never acquired. You will have to remain vigilant throughout your life.

Simone de Beauvoir /

The real democratic progress is not to lower the level of the elite toward that of the crowd, but to raise that of the crowd toward the elite.

Gustave Le Bon - Hier et demain. Pensées brèves /

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