Martin Svoboda added quotes (page 7) | Quotes of famous people

“Every child is an artist until he's told he's not an artist.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

“Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.”

Karl Marx book The German Ideology

Source: Karl Marx. The German Ideology. 1845

“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you ambush yourself in caverns and forests.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The Way of the Creator.
Context: But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you ambush yourself in caverns and forests. You solitary one, you go the way to yourself! And your way leads you past yourself and your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself, and a sorcerer and a soothsayer, and a fool, and a doubter, and a reprobate, and a villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes!

“We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

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“You might have one thing in your head, but the things you’re doing don’t really lead down the right road, necessarily. When you’re young, you don’t want to hear that. You think you can do everything, be all things.”

Chadwick Boseman (1976–2020) American actor

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee

Source: Annabel Lee

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

Plato The Republic

Source: Republic

“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.”

Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher

“Good people do not need law to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”

Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher

“Man: a being in search of meaning.”

Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher

“You can't be loony and rich. You've got to be eccentric if you're rich.”

Terry Pratchett book Reaper Man

Source: Reaper Man

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

“O learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love´s fine wit.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Source: Sonnet XXIII
Context: As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put besides his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength’s abundance weakens his own heart;
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love’s right,
And in mine own love’s strength seem to decay,
O’ercharged with burthen of mine own love’s might.
O, let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast;
Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
More than that tongue that more hath more express’d.
O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:
To hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit.