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Language is a source of misunderstanding.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince /

Language

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.

Look up to the sky. You'll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.

Charlie Chaplin /

heaven

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

Wisdom is harmony.

Novalis - Fragments /

Wisdom is harmony.

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Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

Nelson Mandela /

Tolerance is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama /

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Theodor W. Adorno - Minima Moralia /

Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.

Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation /

All the world's a stage.

William Shakespeare - As you like it /

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Richard Phillips Feynman /

Be confident: Truth is not the end of the way, it is the way itself.

André Comte-Sponville - Présentations de la philosophie /

Become who you are!

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

to be

We are so fond of being out among Nature, because it has no opinions about us.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human /

You cannot hold the day back, but you can avoid wasting it.

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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

Hans Christian Andersen /

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

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The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.

Vincent Willem van Gogh /

The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.

People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

Albert Einstein /

Man

People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

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It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince /

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

The effort we make to be happy is never lost.

Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur /

happiness

Silence is often the truest wisdom.

Pindar - Nemean Odes /

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.

Albert Einstein /

Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama /

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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