Quotes
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Richard III
"Made glorious summer by this sun of York."
Gorgias
"Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others."
The Fellowship of the Ring
"It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish."
The First Step
"If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals."
Oliver Twist
"Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine."
Don Quixote
"Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even."
Autumn Leaves
"God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved."
Beyond Good and Evil
"Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common."
Essays
"Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude."
Sand and Foam
"When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind."
The Post Office Girl
"Nothing makes you madder than wanting to defend yourself against something you can't even get hold of, something the human race is doing to you, but still there's nobody you can grab by the throat."
Powershift
"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power."
A Tale of Two Cities
"I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul."
On Duties
"We may, indeed, indulge in sport and jest, but in the same way as we enjoy sleep or other relaxations, and only when we have satisfied the claims of our earnest, serious task"
Which Was the Dream
"Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size."
The Prophet
"Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have found the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals."
The Irrational Knot
"Chess ... a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time."
The Art of Living
"Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible."
Midnight Library
"“Because […] sometimes the only way to learn is to live.”"
Book VII
"Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee."
Man and Superman
"Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny. They have only shifted it to another shoulder."
The Canterville Ghost
"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."
Never Give In!
"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."
Consistency
"Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world -- and never will."
Book VII
"The nature of the All moved to make the universe."
Dubliners
"She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind."
Discourses
"When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals."
Oscariana
"The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich."
On the Psychology of the Unconsciousness
"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
""So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn money in quite different ways.""
Ulysses
"Rather upsets a man's day a funeral does."
Twilight of the Idols
"The aphorism, the apophthegm, in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book-- what everyone else does not say in a book."
1984
"“Sanity is not statistical.” "
The Analects of Confucius
" "Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.""
Candide
"Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any experienced in a town when it is under siege."
Crime And Punishment
"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
Seagull
"Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make?"
The Trials Of Socrates
"...do not courageous men endure death because they are afraid of yet greater evils? ...Then all but philosophers are courageous only from fear, and because they are afraid; and yet that a man should be courageous from fear, and because he is a coward, is surely a strange thing."
Of Mice and Men
"Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other."
Book II
"The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing."
My Sweet Orange Tree
"“When our mind melts, do we feel it melt?”"
The Art Of War
"He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared."
Book V
"It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so. "
The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck
"Not giving a fuck does not mean being indifferent; it means being comfortable with being different."
The Gay Science
"Possessions are generally diminished by possession."
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
""I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I can say is: we have to try and get rid of it.""
Man and Superman
"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?"
The Blind Owl
"What is love? For the rabble love is a kind of variety, a transient vulgarity; the rabble's conception of love is best found in their obscene ditties, in prostitution and in the foul idioms they use when they are halfway sober, such as "shoving the donkey's foreleg in mud," or "putting dust on the head." My love for her, however, was of a totally different kind. I knew her from ancient times—strange slanted eyes, a narrow, half-open mouth, a subdued quiet voice. She was the embodiment of all my distant, painful memories among which I sought what I was deprived of, what belonged to me but somehow I was denied. Was I deprived forever?"
Eat That Frog!
"Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.”"