Martin Svoboda
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Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 570
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 494
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
“Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone.”
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (1853–1919) painter from Hungary
The Authority
“In order to see the boundaries of the probabilities, need to try impossible.”
Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan
During the fall of Constantinople, when he said that the ships would pass by land.
“Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.”
Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
Also: "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner" <br class="br">Also: "If you care what people think, you will always be their prisoner" <br class="br">Appears in Stephen Mitchell's rendering into English http://terebess.hu/english/tao/mitchell.html#Kap09 of Tao Te Ching chapter 9; but this is an interpretation of Mitchell's which does not appear in the original text or other recognized English translations. Repeated without attribution in Gilliland, Hide Your Goat https://books.google.com/books?id=ziJQdUzCgTIC&pg=PT98&dq=Care+what+other+think+%22you+will+always+be%22+their+prisoner&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBGoVChMIpsbNzO69yAIVCU2ICh0mXwIE#v=onepage&q=Care%20what%20other%20think%20%22you%20will%20always%20be%22%20their%20prisoner&f=false, a positive thinking book published in 2013. <br class="br">Misattributed
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State
“History is written by the victors.”
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)
“Man is fulfilled only when he ceases to be man.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
“I am hopelessly in love with a memory.
An echo from another time, another place.”
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher
“I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.”
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher
“Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.”
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher
Source: "The Subject and Power" (1982), p. 785
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
“To "catch" a husband is an art; to "hold" him is a job.”
Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex
Bk. 2, part 5, Ch. 1: The Married Woman, p. 468
Source: The Second Sex (1949)
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition (2008), ed. William Baer, p. 70
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as vontades
“Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
As quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126
Variant: Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
No Exit (1944)
Variant: A man is what he wills himself to be.
Source: Existentialism and Human Emotions