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Every great philosophy... as a whole says always only: this is the image of all life, and from this learn the meaning of your life.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche / 





Happiness is a rarer vocation than people suppose.
Simone de Beauvoir / 





Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James / 





Don't just hope, learn to want.
André Comte-Sponville - Le bonheur : visions occidentale et chinoise. / 
 





But I, being poor, have only my dreams.
William Butler Yeats / 





All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.
Benjamin Disraeli /





In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.
Confucius - Doctrine of the Mean / 
 





Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare - Merry Wives of Windsor. / 
 





We must then meditate on the things that make our happiness, seeing that when that is with us we have all, but when it is absent we do all to win it.
Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus / 
 





You can! Just will it!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy / 
 





Blessed is he who has overcome all passions and then proceeds energetically to perform his duties under all circumstances careless of success! Let the motive lie in the deed, not in the outcome.
Ludwig van Beethoven / 





We are born human, and later we become truly human.
André Comte-Sponville - Dictionnaire philosophique / 
 





Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears.
Charles Dickens / 





The right-minded man is he who is not grieved by what he has not, but enjoys what he has.
Democritus - Fragments / 
 





Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 





A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
Albert Camus /





Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.
Bertrand Russell / 





Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel /





Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel / 





I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.
Noam Chomsky / 





I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
Simone de Beauvoir /





Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license. Thus his words have respect to his actions, and his actions have respect to his words; is it not just an entire sincerity which marks the superior man?
Confucius - Doctrine of the Mean / 
 





The infinite and the eternal are the only certainty.
Soren Kierkegaard / 





Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
Aristotle /





What happens when one of our actions ceases to be spontaneous and becomes automatic ? Consciousness departs from it.
Henri Bergson - L’Énergie spirituelle / 
 





All things move onward to their term.
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel / 
 





What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
Alan Watts /





The harmony is generally the result of contraries; for it is the unity of multiplicity, and the agreement of discordances.
Philolaus /





Life is a festival only to the wise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson /





When it is not possible to see what ought to be done, suspend your judgement and use the best men to advise you.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 
 






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