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Autumn Leaves

Andre Gide

"God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved."

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

" “Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.”"

Man and Superman

George Bernard Shaw

"Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?"

Ulysses

James Joyce

"Life is the great teacher."

Midnight Library

Matt Haig

"“[…] she was feeling something new here. Or something old that she had long buried. [It] reminded her that she was, first and foremost, a human living on a planet. Almost everything she had done in her life […] – almost everything she had bought and worked for and consumed – had taken her further away from understanding that she and all humans were really just one of nine million species.”"

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

"It seemed ... such nonsense -- inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that."

Book VIII

Marcus Aurelius

"Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. "

Animal Farm

George Orwell

"Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever."

Seagull

Anton Chekhov

"People should be beautiful in every way—in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves."

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease."

The Devil's Disciple

George Bernard Shaw

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."

1984

George Orwell

"“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.” "

My Sweet Orange Tree

José Mauro de Vasconcelos

"“Sometimes we have to wait, for the best.”"

Book IV

Marcus Aurelius

"Be straightforward. Look at things like a man, like a human being, like a citizen, like a mortal. "

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman

Stefan Zweig

"Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit."

The Inspector General

Nikolai Gogol

"The sergeant's widow told you a lie when she said I flogged her. I never flogged her. She flogged herself."

Book III

Marcus Aurelius

"Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments."

The Decay of Lying

Oscar Wilde

"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

Guns, Germs And Steel

Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)

" The resulting food surpluses ... were a prerequisite for the development of ... innovative societies. "

Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality

Jared Diamond

"In particular, while natural selection favors both males and females that leave many offspring, the best strategy for doing so may be different for fathers and mothers. That generates a built-in conflict between the parents, a conclusion that all too many humans don’t need scientists to reveal to them. We make jokes about the battle of the sexes, but the battle is neither a joke nor an aberrant accident of how individual fathers or mothers behave on particular occasions. It is indeed perfectly true that behavior that is in a male’s genetic interests may not necessarily be in the interests of his female co-parent, and vice versa. That cruel fact is one of the fundamental causes of human misery."

The Analects of Confucius

Confucius

" "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.""

The Hobbit

J.R.R Tolkien

"Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?"

What is art?

Leo Tolstoy

"Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated, just as for a mother the cause of sexual conception is love. The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life, as the consequence of a wife's love is the birth of a new man into life. The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength."

The Trials Of Socrates

Plato

"What is that the inherence of which, will render the body alive? [The soul.] ...Then whatever the soul possesses, to that she comes bearing life? ...And is there an opposite to life? [Death.] Then the soul, as she has been acknowledged, will never receive the opposite of what she brings. ...And what do we call the principle which does not admit of death? [The immortal.] And does the soul admit of death? [No.] Then the soul is immortal? [Yes.]"

Essays

Michel De Montaigne

"Few men are admired by their servants."

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam

"“Some for the Glories of This World; and some / Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come; / Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, / Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!”"

Beware of Pity

Stefan Zweig

"Anger makes one not only malign but sharp-sighted."

Essays

Michel De Montaigne

"Necessity is a violent school-mistress."

Man's Search For Meaning

Viktor E Frankl

"Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!"

Atomic Habits

James Clear

"Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action."

Twilight of the Idols

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"

The Analects of Confucius

Confucius

" "Study the past if you would define the future.""

Maxim for Revolutionists

George Bernard Shaw

"He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it."

Diary

Leo Tolstoy

"Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all."

Fragment

Epictetus

"What is due to the state pay as quickly as you can, and you will never be asked for that which is not due."

Book VIII

Marcus Aurelius

"You want praise from people who kick themselves every fifteen minutes, the approval of people who despise themselves. (Is it a sign of self-respect to regret nearly everything you0 do?) "

Stranger

Albert Camus

"“Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. I got a telegram from the home: ‘Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.’ That doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.”"

Ulysses

James Joyce

"I laugh at it today, now that I have had all the good of it. Let the bridge blow up, provided I have got my troops across... Nonetheless, that book was a terrible risk. A transparent leaf separates it from madness."

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

" “Our DNA still thinks we are in the savannah.”"

My Sweet Orange Tree

José Mauro de Vasconcelos

" “Looking at life from afar, I seemed lost in my indifference."

Never Give In!

Winston S Churchill

"The forces of progress clash with those of reaction."

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour."

The Trials Of Socrates

Plato

"Not that this confusion signifies to them who never care to think about the matter at all, for they have the wit to be well pleased with themselves, however great the turmoil of their ideas. But you, if you are a philosopher, will, I believe, do as I say."

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

"No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot."

Never Give In!

Winston S Churchill

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."

Counsels and Maxims

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Of course, it is no easy matter to be polite; in so far, I mean, as it requires us to show great respect for everybody, whereas most people deserve none at all."

Heartbreak House

George Bernard Shaw

"Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world."

Guns, Germs And Steel

Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)

"A suitable starting point from which to compare historical developments on the different continents is around 11,000 B.C."

Never Give In!

Winston S Churchill

"Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent."

Maxim for Revolutionists

George Bernard Shaw

"The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it."