Martin Svoboda favourite quotes (page 15)

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.”

John Nash (1928–2015) American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”

Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor

Source: book Man's Search For Meaning

“Economics is just like managing your household.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Source: movie The Iron Lady

“We will stand on principle, or we will not stand at all.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Source: movie The Iron Lady

“If you take the tough decisions, people will hate you today, but they will love you in generations.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Source: movie The Iron Lady

“The mechanical conception of the universe is nothing but naïve realism.”

Alfred Binet (1857–1911) French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test

Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 38

“We are, for the rest, so wrapped up in sensations that none of our boldest conceptions can break through the circle.”

Alfred Binet (1857–1911) French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test

Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 37

“The world is but an assembly of present, past, and possible sensations; the affair of science is to analyze and co-ordinate them by separating their accidental from their constant relations.”

Alfred Binet (1857–1911) French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test

Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 27

“Everything you've ever wanted is on other side of fear.”

George Addair

“You’re only as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.”

Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker

“Effort is the oxygen for talent.”

P. L. Deshpande (1919–2000) Marathi writer, humourist, actor, dramatist

From his various literature
Source: These words are uttered by the lead character of his work with the same name - Sakharam Gatne.

“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”

Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

Variant: A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
Variant: Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Source: The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, p. 188; also reported in various sources as:
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

“Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera