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Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
Book III
"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."
Book I
"Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called [Eupatridas Gk.], i.e. nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection."
Discourses
"Only the educated are free."
Book VIII
"There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine cause from which all things come to all; and the third to those who live with thee."
Don Quixote
"Sing away sorrow, cast away care."
Beware of Pity
"The word 'service' comes from serving, and serving means being dependent."
Crime And Punishment
"Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do."
Of Mice and Men
"Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love."
Never Give In!
"I see [it said that] leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the ... nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture."
Fragments
"The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become."
Fragment
"It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth."
Siddhartha
"“And—such is my thinking, o Exalted One—no one attains deliverance through teaching!”"
Never Give In!
"Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Übermensch--a rope over an abyss."
The Trials Of Socrates
"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?"
1984
" “It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones.” "
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?"
Mark Twain's Notebook
"The lack of money is the root of all evil."
The Zahir
"Stop being who you were and become who you are."
Nicholas Nickleby
"Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world."
Histoire d'un crime
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
" “It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time.”"
1984
" “If you kept the small rules you could break the big ones"
Don Quixote
"By the streets of "by and by" one arrives at the house of "never.""
The Blind Owl
"My life appeared to me as unnatural, uncertain and incredible as the design on the pencase I am using at this moment. It seems that a painter who has been possessed, perhaps a perfectionist, has painted the cover of this pencase. Often, when I look at this design, it seems familiar; perhaps it is because of this design that I write or perhaps this design makes me write."
Beyond Good and Evil
"Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre."
Book V
"The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. "
Our Mutual Friend
"No one is useless in this world ... who lightens the burden of it for any one else."
Seagull
"To a heart transformed by love, it is a mandolin."
The Post Office Girl
"The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it."
Demian
"All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?"
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."
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?”"
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."
Exiles
"You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman."
The Analects of Confucius
" "The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.""
Midnight Library
"“And even if you were a pawn – maybe we all are – then you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn’t. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.”"
Dubliners
"He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy. If he could give expression to it in a book of poems perhaps men would listen."
Moby Dick
"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
Le Pere Goriot
"The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done."
Mardi
"All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering."
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
"Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."
Anna Karenina
"All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Seagull
"In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn’t yet appeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father."
Book IV
"Think on this doctrine,—that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it."
East Of Eden
"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children."
Letters from the Earth
"I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me."
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
"Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit."
Book II
"This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole..."