Quotes
You can write the name of a quote, author or book among thousands of quotes.
The Post Office Girl
"Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it."
Fragment
"The vine bears three bunches of grapes: the first is that of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, the third of violence."
The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck
"We don’t always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we respond."
Essays
"I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary�s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness."
Siddhartha
"“Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.”"
The Portrait of Mr. W.H.
"All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction."
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
"In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain."
Seagull
"After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, “Oh! Life is so hard!” and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die."
Julius Caesar
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones."
Book VII
"Look round at the courses of the stars, as if thou wert going along with them; and constantly consider the changes of the elements into one another; for such thoughts purge away the filth of the terrene life."
The Analects of Confucius
" "By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.""
Book I
"He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's ac"
Fragments
"Much learning does not teach understanding."
Twilight of the Idols
"It is in our wild nature that we best recover from our un-nature, our spirituality."
History as a System
"The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel, down to the roots of our being, their pressure and their sting. Whose hunger has ever been [sated] with the knowledge that he could not eat?"
Meditations
"Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good."
The Practice of Psychotherapy
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him--an irrational form which no other can outbid."
Reflections on Literature and Morality
"There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection."
The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
"I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers."
The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck
"Pursuing a breadth of experience denies us the opportunity to experience the rewards of depth of experience."
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands."
The Trials Of Socrates
"If death had only been the end of all, the wicked would have had a good bargain in dying, for they would have been happily quit not only of their body, but of their own evil together with their souls. But now, as the soul plainly appears to be immortal, there is no release or salvation from evil except the attainment of the highest virtue and wisdom. For the soul when on her progress to the world below takes nothing with her but nurture and education..."
Pride and Prejudice
"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."
Parerga and Paralipomena
"Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without."
Demian
"Two worlds coincided there, day and night issued from two poles."
Essays and Aphorisms
"The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”"
Man's Search For Meaning
"It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today."
Atomic Habits
"Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.30 Motivational Quotes from Atomic Habits by James Clear"
Republic
"“Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?”"
Psychological Reflections
"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
War and Peace
"Kings are the slaves of history."
Beware of Pity
"One's emotional state is always determined by the oddest and most accidental things, and it is precisely the most superficial factors that often fortify or diminish our courage."
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
" “We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor inevitable, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we imagine.”"
Julius Caesar
"Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
Book II
"No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart."
Too True to Be Good
"A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up."
Siddhartha
"Govinda said: “Still, oh Siddhartha, you love a bit to mock people, as it seems to me. I believe in you and know that you haven’t followed a teacher. But haven’t you found something by yourself, though you’ve found no teachings, you still found certain thoughts, certain insights, which are your own and which help you to live? If you would like to tell me some of these, you would delight my heart.” Quoth Siddhartha: “I’ve had thoughts, yes, and insight, again and again. Sometimes, for an hour or for an entire day, I have felt knowledge in me, as one would feel life in one’s heart. There have been many thoughts, but it would be hard for me to convey them to you. Look, my dear Govinda, this is one of my thoughts, which I have found: wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness.”"
Beyond Good and Evil
"Madness is something rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule."
Man's Search For Meaning
""This Man Faced Unimaginable Suffering, And Then Wrote The Definitive Book About Happiness" by Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2014. "
Guns, Germs And Steel
"Because diseases have been the biggest killers of people, they have also been decisive shapers of history. Until World War II, more victims of war died of war-borne microbes than of battle wounds."
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
"“Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.”"
Eat That Frog!
"“There is an old saying that "by the yard it's hard; but inch by inch, anything's a cinch!”"
Toilers of the Sea
"God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring--it is his will that we should love."
Seagull
"“If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.”"
The Prince
"“It is necessary for a prince to have the people friendly.”"
The Decay of Lying
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
Tales From Tolstoy
"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."
The importance of Being Earnest
"Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living."
What is art?
"Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge."