Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - Buboquote.com

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi /

life

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Odes /

Seize the day.

Consciousness of our powers augments them.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

strength

But where the danger is,
also grows the saving power.

Friedrich Hölderlin - Patmos /

danger

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

beauty

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections /

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.

If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there.

Lewis Carroll /

way

If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there.

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To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

George Orwell /

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live.

Seneca - De Brevitate vitæ /

But the most beautiful of all doubts
Is when the downtrodden and despondent raise their heads and
Stop believing in the strength
Of their oppressors.

Bertolt Brecht - Lob des Zweifels /

doubt

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

Without the art of living knowledge nought avails.

Voltaire - Épîtres /

Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées /

Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;

Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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

wisdom

All of us harbour in ourselves hidden gardens and plantations;

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science /

When in doubt, follow the suit of the wise and prudent.

Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom /

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray /

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

time

All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

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

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

Happiness is the goal of philosophy. Or to be more precise, the goal of philosophy is wisdom, and therefore happiness.

André Comte-Sponville /

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 /

Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.

René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy /

The Owl of Minerva begins her flight only at the coming of twilight.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Elements of the Philosophy of Right /

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant - Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals /

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Pierre Corneille - The Liar /

to give

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

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