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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

eyes

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing /

trust

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

Auguste Rodin /

nature

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

love

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

Charles Baudelaire /

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Ludwig Wittgenstein /

problem

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

William Shakespeare /

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein /

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Benjamin Franklin /

death

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin /

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

time

Nature abhors a vacuum.

François Rabelais /

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald /

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

Jean-Paul Sartre /

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Niccolo Machiavelli /

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Charles Darwin /

History

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin /

anger

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Hannah Arendt /

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

Henri Bergson /

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Mahatma Gandhi /

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

education

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

love

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.

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