“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Martin Svoboda
Verified author @quick, member from April 4, 2011
“History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view.”
Jawaharlal Nehru book The Discovery of India
The Discovery of India (1946), pp. 287-8.
“The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
This has been attributed to Orwell on the internet, but the earliest source citing him as author appears to be a post from Jsnip4 on the RealistNews.net forum (15 February 2011) http://www.realistnews.net/Thread-realist-news-was-the-capital-gains-tax-just-removed-regarding-bullion. Prior to this, the statement occurred, without attribution to Orwell, in an opinion piece by columnist Selwyn Duke http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/duke/090506, "Stopping Truth At The Border: Banning Michael Savage From Britain" (6 May 2009) https://web.archive.org/web/20150701002957/http://www.conservativecrusader.com/articles/stopping-truth-at-the-border-banning-michael-savage-from-britain. <br class="br">Misattributed
“We are the change we have been waiting for.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
“Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.”
Edgar Allan Poe book The Philosophy of Composition
"The Philosophy of Composition" (published 1846).
“Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination.”
Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist
As quoted in Advances in Biochemical Psychopharmacology, Vol. 25 (1980), p. 3
“Truth never triumphs—its opponents just die out.”
Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist
Variant: Science advances one funeral at a time.
“No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.”
Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist
Max Müller, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood
Misattributed
“For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet”
Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher
196
The Symposium
“Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.”
Erich Maria Remarque book The Black Obelisk
Source: The Black Obelisk
“Our knowledge of life is limited to death”
Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
“We have so much to say, and we shall never say it.”
Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
“The death of one man is a just death, the death of two millions is a statistic.”
Erich Maria Remarque book The Black Obelisk
Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik.
Der schwarze Obelisk (1956)
A variant of this quote "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is just a statistic." has also been attributed to Joseph Stalin, but no source for this has been found. This version appeared in the English press not later than 1958. (Ремарк, Эрих Мария // Словарь современных цитат / составитель К. В. Душенко — Москва: изд-во «Эксмо», 2006)
“It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit.”
Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Ch. 6
Context: It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dugout I might have been smashed to atoms, and in the open survive ten hours' bombardment unscathed. No soldier survives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
“We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.”
Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) German novelist