Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
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@quick, member from April 4, 2011Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Hermann Hesse book Narcissus and Goldmund
Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
“Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Variant: Someone who is a clever speaker and maintains a 'too-smiley' face is seldom considered a humane person.
Source: The Analects, Chapter I
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Variant: Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Variant: Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Book III, ch. 23.
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“People are strange, they neither wish to live nor die.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
I.303 http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&q=&quot;we+often+contradict+an+opinion+for+no+other+reason+than+that+we+do+not+like+the+tone+in+which+it+is+expressed&quot;&pg=PA137#v=onepage <br class="br">Human, All Too Human (1878)
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
II.293, maxim 358 http://books.google.kz/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&pg=PA293&dq=%22In+the+mountains+of+truth+you+will+never+climb+in+vain%22&hl=en <br class="br">Human, All Too Human (1878)
“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
“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
This quotation was not crafted by Ernest Hemingway. Its exact genesis is uncertain, but QI hypothesizes that the 1929 statement by Hemingway and the 1992 lyric by Leonard Cohen both strongly influenced the evolution of the expression and its ascription. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/11/16/light/
“Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.”
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) German philosopher
“Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.”
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) German philosopher
“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”
José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955) Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist
Source: Man and Crisis (1962), p. 94.
“There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.”
José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955) Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist
“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”
Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”
Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
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