“I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.”
Peter Ackroyd book The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
Pages 128-9.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
Martin Svoboda
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Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone.”
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (1853–1919) painter from Hungary
The Authority
“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)
“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)
“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
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
“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 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.
“Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.”
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) French poet
La géométrie est aux arts plastiques ce que la grammaire est à l'art de l'écrivain.
Les peintres cubistes (1913), reprinted in Oeuvres en prose complètes (Paris: Gallimard, 1991) vol. 2, p. 11; translation from Lionel Abel (trans.) The Cubist Painters (New York: Wittenborn, 1949) p. 13.
“A man without ambition is like a bird without wings”
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/10/14/wings/
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”
A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author
