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- You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of…
- In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event…
- The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep…
- The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as…
- Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about…
- Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has…
- People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness…
- Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all…
- There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.
- Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If…
- One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only…
- Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
- And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
- Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
- Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because…
- Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and…
- I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth…
- A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who…
- When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
- I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them…
- In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement.…
- The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the…
- A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to…
- …the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead,…
- the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster