“The funniest people are the saddest ones”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
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“What does your conscience say? — "You shall become the person you are."”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Was sagt dein Gewissen? <br class="br">'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.' <br class="br">Variant translation: Become who you are. <br class="br">It is noted here http://www.anonymityone.com/Faq97.htm, here http://www.google.it/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=%22Become%20who%20you%20are%22+Pindar+Nietzsche&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks and here http://www.google.it/search?num=100&hl=it&safe=off&biw=1440&bih=690&q=%22%28become+what+you+are%29+after+the+ancient+Greek+poet+Pindar.+See+Ecce+Homo+%28Nietzsche%29%22 that the phrase was first used by Pindar, and was merely re-used by Nietzsche. <br class="br">Sec. 270 <br class="br">The Gay Science (1882)
“You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.”
Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
“We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Source: 1920s, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 2; as translated by James Strachey, p.63
“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
“Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.”
Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita
Source: The Master and Margarita
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
Edgar Allan Poe book The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1845)
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
In answer to a question asked by the editors of Youth, a journal of Young Israel of Williamsburg, NY. Quoted in the New York Times, June 20, 1932, pg. 17 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40617F83B5A13738DDDA90A94DE405B828FF1D3 <br class="br">Unsourced variant: Only a life in the service of others is worth living. <br class="br">1930s <br class="br">Variant: I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
“I like the wind because you can’t buy it.”
Gianni Agnelli (1921–2003) Italian businessman
Gianni Agnelli quotes http://hespokestyle.com/mens-style-advice/gianni-agnelli-quotes/ hespokestyle.com
“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“No one is perfect in this imperfect world.”
Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961) Congolese Prime Minister, cold war leader, executed
Congo, My Country
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Source: The Philosophy of Aristotle
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Variants: One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is just a statistic.<br>A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.<br>When one dies, it is a tragedy. When a million die, it is a statistic.<br>In Портрет тирана (1981) (Portrait of a Tyrant), Soviet historian Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko attributes the following version to Stalin: "When one man dies it's a tragedy. When thousands die it's statistics." This is the alleged response of Stalin during the 1943 Tehran conference when Churchill objected to an early opening of a second front in France.<!-- The book appears to have a footnote sourceing the claim, but I couldn't access it. Could someone please try to scare up a paper copy and have a look at footnote 188? --><br>In her review "Mustering Most Memorable Quips" of Konstantin Dushenko's 1997 Dictionary of Modern Quotations (Словарь современных цитат: 4300 ходячих цитат и выражений ХХ века, их источники, авторы, датировка), Julia Solovyova states: "Russian historians have no record of the lines, 'Death of one man is a tragedy. Death of a million is a statistic,' commonly attributed by English-language dictionaries to Josef Stalin."<br>This quotation may originate from "Französischer Witz" (1925) by Kurt Tucholsky: "Darauf sagt ein Diplomat vom Quai d'Orsay: «Der Krieg? Ich kann das nicht so schrecklich finden! Der Tod eines Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine Statistik!»" ("To which a Quai d'Orsay diplomat replies: «The war? I can't find it so terrible! The death of one man: that is a catastrophe. One hundred thousand deaths: that is a statistic!»")<br>Another possible source or intermediary may be the concluding words of chapter 8 of the 1956 novel The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque: "Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik." ("But probably the reason is that one dead man is death—and two million are only a statistic." 1958 Crest Book reprint)<br>Mary Soames (daughter of Churchill) claims to have overheard Stalin deliver a variant of the quote in immediate postwar Berlin (Remembrance Sunday Andrew Marr interview BBC 2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hP2tpw9XEw<br>See also Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a Biologist, 1939: "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god."<br>In an interview given for the 1983 three-part documentary Der Prozeß by Norddeutscher Rundfunk on the Third Majdanek trial, Simon Wiesenthal attributes the quote to the unpublished auto-biography of Adolf Eichmann. According to Wiesenthal, Eichmann had been asked by another member of the Reich Main Security Office during WWII what they should answer would they be questioned after the war about the millions of dead Jews they were responsible for, to which Eichmann according to his own testimony had replied with the quote. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.
“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
