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Bertrand Russell Fotografia

“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Bertrand Russell's Best: Silhouettes in Satire (1958), "On Religion".<!--originally taken from What is an Agnostic? (1953).-->
1950s
Kontekst: I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche Fotografia

“Become who you are!”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Źródło: Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Tennessee Williams Fotografia

“Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

Źródło: Memoirs

Stephen King Fotografia

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”

Stephen King książka The Gunslinger

Źródło: The Gunslinger

Eckhart Tolle Fotografia
Molière Fotografia

“It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.”

Molière The Misanthrope

C'est un merveilleux assaisonnement aux plaisirs qu'on goûte que la présence des gens qu'on aime.
Act V, sc. iv
Le Misanthrope (1666)

Stephen King Fotografia
Mark Twain Fotografia

“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Źródło: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Henry David Thoreau Fotografia

“But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
Cechą mądrości jest nie postępować w sposób desperacki.

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Rudyard Kipling Fotografia
Frank Lloyd Wright Fotografia

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

As quoted in My Favorite Quotations (1990) by Norman Vincent Peale

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Fotografia

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Table-Talk (1857)
Źródło: The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mark Twain Fotografia
Gloria Steinem Fotografia

“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983), p. 228

C.G. Jung Fotografia
Terry Pratchett Fotografia

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

Terry Pratchett książka Diggers

The Nome Trilogy (1989 - 1990)
Wariant: The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.
Źródło: Diggers (1990)

Helen Keller Fotografia

“No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Helen Adams Keller (p. 60. Helen Keller's Journal: 1936-1937, Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1938)

Oscar Wilde Fotografia
Mark Twain Fotografia
Oscar Wilde Fotografia

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”

Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya

Wariant: One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Madonna Fotografia

“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

From Sex book
Wariant: A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

Terry Pratchett Fotografia

“Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?”

Terry Pratchett książka Piekło pocztowe

Źródło: Going Postal

Rainer Maria Rilke Fotografia

“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

As quoted in Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations (1990) by Sy Safransky, p. 42

Abraham Lincoln Fotografia

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
Moim problemem nie jest, czy Bóg jest po naszej stronie. Moim największym zmartwieniem jest, czy my jesteśmy po stronie Boga. Bo Bóg ma zawsze rację!

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Isaac Newton Fotografia

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
Jeśli widzę dalej, to tylko dlatego, że stoję na ramionach olbrzymów.

Isaac Newton (1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics

Letter to Robert Hooke (15 February 1676) [dated as 5 February 1675 using the Julian calendar with March 25th rather than January 1st as New Years Day, equivalent to 15 February 1676 by Gregorian reckonings.] A facsimile of the original is online at The digital Library https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/9792. The quotation is 7-8 lines up from the bottom of the first page. The phrase is most famous as an expression of Newton's but he was using a metaphor which in its earliest known form was attributed to Bernard of Chartres by John of Salisbury: Bernard of Chartres used to say that we [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter. And this is not at all because of the acuteness of our sight or the stature of our body, but because we are carried aloft and elevated by the magnitude of the giants. Modernized variants: If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Wariant: If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.
Źródło: The Correspondence Of Isaac Newton

Oscar Wilde Fotografia
Mark Twain Fotografia
Leonardo Da Vinci Fotografia

“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

Friedrich Nietzsche Fotografia

“Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.”

Friedrich Nietzsche książka Human, All Too Human

Źródło: Human, All Too Human

John Lennon Fotografia
Oscar Wilde Fotografia

“Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

In a letter to Ada Leverson [Sphinx] recorded in her book Letters To The Sphinx From Oscar Wilde and Reminiscences of the Author (1930)

Rudyard Kipling Fotografia

“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble”
Zawsze staram się widzieć w każdym jego najlepsze strony – to mi oszczędza wielu kłopotów.

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Oscar Wilde Fotografia

“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”
Każdy może tworzyć historię, ale tylko naprawdę wielki człowiek może ją pisać.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I

Emily Brontë Fotografia

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

Emily Brontë książka Wuthering Heights

Nelly Dean (Ch. VII).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

Henry David Thoreau Fotografia

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
Nasze najprawdziwsze życie ma miejsce, gdy śpimy w snach.

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Marcus Aurelius Fotografia
John Donne Fotografia

“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”

John Donne (1572–1631) English poet

Źródło: The Poems of John Donne; Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of

Abraham Lincoln Fotografia
Stephen R. Covey Fotografia
Terry Pratchett Fotografia
Terry Pratchett Fotografia
Isaac Asimov Fotografia

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988), edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281
General sources

Ovid Fotografia

“Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.”
Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.

Ovid książka Heroidy

Book III, line 425
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Źródło: Heroides
Kontekst: Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

Benjamin Disraeli Fotografia
George Bernard Shaw Fotografia

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Preface
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Wariant: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Kontekst: Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Terry Pratchett Fotografia
Friedrich Nietzsche Fotografia

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”

Friedrich Nietzsche książka Zmierzch bożyszcz

Źródło: Twilight of the Idols

Mark Twain Fotografia

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

Mark Twain książka A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Ch. 43 http://www.literature.org/authors/twain-mark/connecticut/chapter-43.html
Źródło: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)

Eckhart Tolle Fotografia
Victor Hugo Fotografia
George Carlin Fotografia
Margaret Atwood Fotografia
Mark Twain Fotografia

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

As quoted in "An Interview with Mark Twain" http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/seatosea/chapter37.html, From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel (1899) by Rudyard Kipling, Ch. 37, p. 180
Commonly paraphrased as: "First get your facts, then you can distort them at your leisure."

Oscar Wilde Fotografia

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
Idea, która nie jest niebezpieczna, niegodna jest miana idei.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, edited by Alvin Redman (1954)

John Lennon Fotografia

“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be…”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Song All You Need Is Love

T.S. Eliot cytat: “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
T.S. Eliot Fotografia

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
Robić to, co pożyteczne, mówić odważnie, doceniać rzeczy piękne: to wystarczy na życie jednego człowieka.

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Źródło: The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

C.G. Jung Fotografia

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”

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

Źródło: Modern Man in Search of a Soul, p. 69

Bob Dylan cytat: “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
Bob Dylan Fotografia

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Wariant: A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Stephen King Fotografia
Sam Levenson Fotografia
John Lennon Fotografia

“We all shine on… like the moon and the stars and the sun… we all shine on… come on and on and on…”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Wariant: Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
Źródło: Song Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)

Abraham Lincoln Fotografia
Franz Kafka Fotografia

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”

Franz Kafka książka The Zürau Aphorisms

16
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Wariant: A cage went in search of a bird.

José Ortega Y Gasset Fotografia

“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

Źródło: Man and Crisis (1962), p. 94.

Terry Pratchett Fotografia

“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”

Terry Pratchett książka Straż! Straż!

Źródło: Guards! Guards!

Bruce Lee Fotografia
George Carlin Fotografia
Oprah Winfrey Fotografia

“Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.”
Podążaj za swoim instynktem. To właśnie tam prawdziwa mądrość sama się ujawnia.

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
F. Scott Fitzgerald Fotografia

“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”
Pokażcie mi bohatera, a ja napiszę tragedię.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Notebook E (1945) edited by Edmund Wilson
Quoted, Notebooks

Francis Bacon Fotografia

“A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.”

Francis Bacon książka Essays

Of Ceremonies and Respect
Essays (1625)
Wariant: Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Źródło: The Essays

Benjamin Disraeli Fotografia

“Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Book VIII, Chapter 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)

Mark Twain Fotografia

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Nie poszedłem na ten pogrzeb, ale wysłałem uprzejmy list z wyrazami poparcia.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Wariant: I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.

Marcus Aurelius Fotografia

“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.”

Marcus Aurelius książka Rozmyślania

XII, 17
Źródło: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XII
Kontekst: If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it. For let thy efforts be

Oscar Wilde Fotografia

“Only the shallow know themselves.”
Tylko płytcy ludzie znają siebie.

Oscar Wilde książka Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)

Doris Lessing Fotografia

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”

Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer

Źródło: Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

Mark Twain Fotografia
Stephen King Fotografia
Oscar Wilde Fotografia
Oscar Wilde Fotografia

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya

Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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