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Book V

Marcus Aurelius

"The intelligence of the universe is social."

Factors Determining Human Behavior

Carl Gustav Jung

"The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body."

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

"But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality."

The Art Of War

Sun Tzu

"He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign."

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."

Don Quixote

Miguel De Cervantes

"I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose."

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

"Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love."

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

"It is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."

Meditations on Quixote

Jose Ortega y Gasset

"I am I and my circumstance, and if I don't save it I don't save myself."

What Then Must We Do?

Leo Tolstoy

"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back."

Republic

Plato

"“Have you never observed how invincible and unconquerable is spirit and how the presence of it makes the soul of any creature to be absolutely fearless and indomitable?”"

Discourses

Epictetus

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Essays

Michel De Montaigne

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she isn't amusing herself with me more than I am with her? "

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."

The Will to Power

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness."

Demian

Hermann Hesse

"All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?"

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

F Nietzsche

"Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy."

Beware of Pity

Stefan Zweig

"People who are so much at the mercy of their moods should never be given serious responsibilities."

Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Franz Kafka

""Nothing would stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at him like a wild man.""

Midnight Library

Matt Haig

"“It was a familiar feeling. This feeling of being incomplete in just about every sense. An unfinished jigsaw of a human.”"

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Paulo Coelho

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

Book IV

Marcus Aurelius

"The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do."

Fragments

Heraclitus

"Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?"

Book II

Marcus Aurelius

"You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last."

Stranger

Albert Camus

"“My turn came next. Marie threw me a kiss. I looked back as I walked away. She hadn’t moved; her face was still pressed to the rails, her lips still parted in that tense, twisted smile.”"

the Revolt of the Masses

Jose Ortega y Gasset

"The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. As they say in the United States: "to be different is to be indecent." The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear, of course, that this "everybody" is not "everybody." "Everybody" was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialised minorities. Nowadays, "everybody" is the mass alone."

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."

The Lily Of The Valley

Honore de Balzac

"“My father used to say that one of the great offences of sham politeness was the neglect of promises. When anything is demanded of you that you cannot do, refuse positively and leave no loopholes for false hopes; on the other hand, grant at once whatever you are willing to bestow.”"

The Refugee's Haven

VICTOR HUGO

"You may doubt I found comfort in England, But, there, 'tis a refuge from dangers! Where a Cromwell dictated to Milton, Republicans ne'er can be strangers!"

Persuasion

Jane Austen

"One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering."

The Winter of Our Discontent

John Steinbeck

"What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately."

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

"“Even in him, even in your great teacher, I prefer the thing to the words, his actions and his life are more important than his speech, the gestures of his hand more important than his opinions.”"

American Claimant

Mark Twain

"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."

The Analects of Confucius

Confucius

" "To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.""

Never Give In!

Winston S Churchill

"The Government simply cannot make up their mind, or they cannot get the Prime Minister to make up his mind. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent."

The Art Of War

Sun Tzu

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

Midnight Library

Matt Haig

"[…] it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunize you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other."

King Lear

William Shakespeare

"Nothing can come of nothing."

Seagull

Anton Chekhov

"Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier."

Candide

Voltaire

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

Candide

Voltaire

"Let us cultivate our garden."

Emma

Jane Austen

"One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.."

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens

"We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner."

Book III

Marcus Aurelius

"A man should be upright, not kept upright."

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey

"“At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn’t believe in yourself.”"

The Hobbit

J.R.R Tolkien

"Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them."

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."

Never Give In!

Winston S Churchill

"Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

Never Give In!

Winston S Churchill

"Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is."