Quotes
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The Critic as Artist
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Never Give In!
"The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult."
Atomic Habits
" Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become."
Surrounded by Idiots
"“Just because you’re right, I don’t have to be wrong.”"
Twilight of the Idols
"It is in our wild nature that we best recover from our un-nature, our spirituality."
Essays
"A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself."
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food."
Republic
"“I see that you are indifferent about money, which is a characteristic rather of those who have inherited their fortunes than of those who have acquired them; the makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit which is common to them and all men. And hence they are very bad company, for they can talk about nothing but the praises of wealth.”"
Don Quixote
"I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion."
Demian
"I often ardently perceived a longing for relief, the desire for a proper confession, but I also felt in advance that I would be unable to tell and explain things correctly to either my father or mother. I knew that they would receive my words amicably, they would carefully spare my feelings, in fact, pity me, but they wouldn’t fully understand me, and the whole thing would be looked on as a sort of minor infraction, whereas it was actually my fate."
12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos
"“Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.”"
Book IV
"Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised."
The Decay of Lying
"Art never expresses anything but itself."
Reflections on Literature and Morality
"Complete possession is proved only by giving."
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
"“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”"
The Picture of Dorian Gray
"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."
Seagull
"“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”"
Twilight of the Idols
"To learn to see -- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts."
Don Quixote
"The more thou stir it, the worse it will be."
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
" "Any large-scale human cooperation – whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe – is rooted in common myths that exist only in people’s collective imagination.”"
A Tale of Two Cities
"Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind."
Northanger Abbey
"A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world"
The Karamazov Brothers
"What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.'"
The Art Of War
"He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces."
Bleak House
"The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself."
Never Give In!
"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."
Mardi
"Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all."
The Hobbit
"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?"
Book IV
"Variant: That which is really beautiful has no need of anything. "
The Art Of War
"There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare."
Beyond Good and Evil
"A human being who strives for something great considers everyone he meets on his way either as a means or as a delay and obstacle--or as a temporary resting place."
The Decay of Lying
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
The importance of Being Earnest
"The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous."
Don Quixote
"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works."
Maxim for Revolutionists
"The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it."
The Analects of Confucius
" "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be failure.""
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
"“How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.”"
The Prince
"“Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.”"
History as a System
"The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be considered as the commonplace of everyday thinking. … An innate blindness seems to have closed the eyes of this epoch to all but those facts which show life as a phenomenon of utility"
Dubliners
"One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."
Never Give In!
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Of Mice and Men
"Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other."
Mrs. Dalloway
"The truth is ... that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. They hunt in packs. Their packs scour the desert and vanish screaming into the wilderness."
Book VI
"Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life."
Pride and Prejudice
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?"
Book II
"What is divine is full of Providence. Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and enfolding of things governed by Providence. Everything proceeds from it. (Hays translation)"
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
" "Gazing into the darkness, he felt a great pride that he was able to provide a life like that in such a nice home for his sister and parents.""
Man and His Symbols
"Where pride is insistent enough, memory prefers to give way."
On Duties
"Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery."
Republic
"“People who are to be comfortable are accustomed to lie on sofas, and dine off tables, and they should have sauces and sweets in the modern style.”"