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Demian

Hermann Hesse

"Everyone lives through this difficult period. For the average person it’s the point in his life when the demands of his own life clash most violently with the world around him, when his forward path must be fought for most bitterly."

On Duties

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The distinguishing property of man is to search for and to follow after truth. Therefore, when relaxed from our necessary cares and concerns, we then covet to see, to hear, and to learn somewhat; and we esteem knowledge of things either obscure or wonderful to be the indispensable means of living happily. "

What is Philosophy?

Jose Ortega y Gasset

"I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but when he is ready to enunciate them and give them out, he ought to avoid the cynical skill with which some scientists, like a Hercules at the fair, amuse themselves by displaying to the public the biceps of their technique."

The Post Office Girl

Stefan Zweig

"In the end one needs forbearance to get by in this world."

Stranger

Albert Camus

"“Neither of the two men, at these times, showed the least hostility toward me, and everything went so smoothly, so amiably, that I had an absurd impression of being ‘one of the family.‘”"

The Analects of Confucius

Confucius

" "Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.""

12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos

Jordan B. Peterson

""Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today”"

The Children of Hurin

J.R.R Tolkien

"False hopes are more dangerous than fears."

My Sweet Orange Tree

José Mauro de Vasconcelos

" “Children’s wounds heal quickly.”"

Fragment

Epictetus

"We should enjoy good fortune while we have it, like the fruits of autumn."

Essays

Michel De Montaigne

"It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions."

Guns, Germs And Steel

Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)

"It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?"

The Trials Of Socrates

Plato

"He who is a philosopher or lover of learning, and is entirely pure at departing, is alone permitted to reach the gods. And this is the reason, Simmias and Cebes, why the true votaries of philosophy abstain from all fleshly lusts, and endure and refuse to give themselves up to them—not because they fear poverty or ruin of their families, like the lovers of money, and the world in general; nor like the lovers of power and honor, because they dread the dishonor or disgrace of evil deeds."

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey

"“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”"

Never Give In!

Winston S Churchill

"Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all."

Fragments

Heraclitus

"You needn't listen to me; listen to the Logos [within]. When you do, you will agree that all things are One."

Fruits of the Earth

Andre Gide

"I believe all that is possible is striving to come into being; and all that can will, if man helps."

Leo Africanus

Amin Maalouf

"“let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that day is to have meaning; silence, that speech is to have meaning; illness, that health is to have meaning; war, that peace is to have meaning. Let us give thanks to Him for having given us weariness and pain, so that rest and joy are to have meaning. Let us give thanks to him, whose wisdom is infinite.”"

The Trial

Franz Kafka

"Even that has its reason; it is often better to be in chains than to be free."

The Critic as Artist

Oscar Wilde

"Newspapers ... chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest whatsoever."

The Trials Of Socrates

Plato

"When does the soul obtain truth?—for in attempting to consider anything in company with the body she is obviously deceived. ...Then must not existence be revealed to her in thought, if at all? ...And thought is best when the mind is gathered into herself and none of these things trouble her—neither sounds nor sights nor pain nor any pleasure—when she has as little as possible to do with the body, and has no bodily sense or feeling, but is aspiring after being? ...And in this the philosopher dishonors the body; his soul runs away from the body and desires to be alone and by herself?"

Book IV

Marcus Aurelius

"Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past."

If it Die

Andre Gide

"There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them."

The Trial

Franz Kafka

"Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one of the men closed round his throat, just as the other drove the knife deep into his heart and turned it twice."

The Three Sisters

Anton Chekhov

" “We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”"

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

Les Misérables

VICTOR HUGO

"Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering -- a hell of boredom."

Human, All Too Human

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil."

Discourses

Epictetus

"The rational and the irrational appear such in a different way to different persons, just as the good and the bad, the profitable and the unprofitable."

Dubliners

James Joyce

"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."

Hope

VICTOR HUGO

"In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death."

Atomic Habits

James Clear

"All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. Quotes from Atomic Habits by James Clear"

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Paulo Coelho

"Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old."

Beware of Pity

Stefan Zweig

"No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it."

The Art Of War

Sun Tzu

"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?"

Mark Twain's Notebook

Mark Twain

"The lack of money is the root of all evil."

Narcissus and Goldmund

Hermann Hesse

"„When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do.“"

Never Give In!

Winston S Churchill

"Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

Beware of Pity

Stefan Zweig

"It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence."

Never Give In!

Winston S Churchill

"For my own part I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities which he excites among his opponents. I have always set myself not merely to relish but to deserve thoroughly their censure."

Psychology of the Unconscious

Carl Gustav Jung

"The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has led human thought to independence, and has lost its significance, therefore, to a yet undetermined extent.... It seems to me that we might still make use in some way of its form of thought, and especially of its great wisdom of life, which for two thousand years has proven to be particularly efficacious."

Day's Collacon

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?"

12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos

Jordan B. Peterson

"“You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with (and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse).”"

La Legende des Siécles

VICTOR HUGO

"Like our dawn, merely a sob of light."

Too True to Be Good

George Bernard Shaw

"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."

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly."

Seagull

Anton Chekhov

"“If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.”"

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

"“Consistency is the playground of dull minds.” (Meaning)"

Fragments

Heraclitus

"People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls."

Never Give In!

Winston S Churchill

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."