Quotes

Book IV

Marcus Aurelius

"That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before."

Animal Farm

George Orwell

"“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.”"

The Art Of War

Sun Tzu

"Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate."

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

"It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself."

The Trials Of Socrates

Plato

"I am quite ready, Simmias and Cebes, that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind; and therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead, and, as has been said of old, some far better thing for the good than for the evil."

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."

Book VI

Marcus Aurelius

"Death,—a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh."

The Analects of Confucius

Confucius

" "He who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.""

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

"And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite."

Republic

Plato

"“You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners.”"

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

"“Suffering arises from craving; the only way to be fully liberated from suffering is to be fully liberated from craving; and the only way to be liberated from craving is to train the mind to experience reality as it is.”"

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."

The Trial

Franz Kafka

"The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other."

The Trials Of Socrates

Plato

"If any man could arrive at the exterior limit, or take the wings of a bird and fly upward, like a fish who puts his head out and sees the world, he would see a world beyond; and, if the nature of man could sustain this sight, he would acknowledge that this was the place of the true heaven and the true light and the true stars. For this earth, and the stones, and the entire region which surrounds us, are spoilt and corroded..."

Never Give In!

Winston S Churchill

"If you destroy a free market you create a black market."

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

"What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination."

Man and Superman

George Bernard Shaw

"The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for a living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art."

The Innocents Abroad

Mark Twain

"Labor in loneliness is irksome."

Seagull

Anton Chekhov

"“When asked, 'Why do you always wear black?', he said, 'I am mourning for my life.'”"

Never Give In!

Winston S Churchill

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."

Gorgias

Plato

"The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not"

Candide

Voltaire

""Let us work without reasoning," said Martin; "it is the only way to make life endurable.""

Leo Africanus

Amin Maalouf

"“Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanors, and faith quickly becomes cruel if is not subdued by certain doubts.”"

Leo Africanus

Amin Maalouf

"“And justice lies in appearance, at least in this world, at least in the eyes of the multitude.”"

The First Step

Leo Tolstoy

"If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals."

Republic

Plato

"“For the highest reach of injustice is, to be deemed just when you are not.”"

Self-Analysis

Karen Horney

"To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life."

The Winter of Our Discontent

John Steinbeck

"My dreams are the problems of the day stepped up to absurdity, a little like men dancing, wearing the horns and masks of animals."

East Of Eden

John Steinbeck

"Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all."

The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck

Mark Manson

"Commitment allows you to focus intently on a few highly important goals and achieve a greater degree of success than you otherwise would."

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

"No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it."

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey

"“Courage isn’t absence of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important”"

The Art Of War

Sun Tzu

"Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain."

The Analects of Confucius

Confucius

" "Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.""

Finnegan's Wake

James Joyce

"In the name of the former and of the latter and of their holocaust. Allmen."

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey

"“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”"

Dostoevsky and Parricide

Sigmund Freud

"The Brothers Karamazov is the most magnificent novel ever written; the episode of the Grand Inquisitor, one of the peaks in the literature of the world, can hardly be valued too highly."

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

"He didn't at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn't do it -- nobody asked him. It was not necessary for the bee to make such a merit of his tastes."

Guns, Germs And Steel

Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)

"Tolstoy meant that, in order to be happy, a marriage must succeed in many different respects: sexual attraction, agreement about money, child discipline, religion, in-laws, and other vital issues."

The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

"“A prince ought also to show himself a patron of ability, and to honour the proficient in every art.”"

 Mark Twain's Notebook

Mark Twain

"The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them."

Sand and Foam

Kahlil Gibran

"The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say."

Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

"Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."

Twilight of the Idols

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"When stepped on, the worm curls up. That is a clever thing to do. Thus it reduces its chances of being stepped on again. In the language of morality: humility."

Philosophical Fragments 

Soren Kierkegaard

"The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it."

Atomic Habits

James Clear

"18. The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game."

Seagull

Anton Chekhov

" “Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”"

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

"Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?"

Animal Farm

George Orwell

"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"