“The possible ranks higher than the actual.”
Martin Heidegger book Being and Time
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Being and Time (1927)
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“Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.”
Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
Source: Raven's Shadow
“Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh.”
Salvador Plascencia The People of Paper
Source: The People of Paper
“Reading is more important than writing.”
Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) Chilean author
Source: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
“There is no greater glory than to die for love.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Variant: There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman
Source: 1900s, Man and Superman (1903), p. 23
“Love is the whole and more than all.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
Source: 100 Selected Poems
“Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant: Imagination is more imortant than Knowledge
“Genius lasts longer than beauty”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Silence is more eloquent than words.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
“I'd rather be alone than unhappy”
Whitney Houston (1963–2012) American singer, actress, model, and record producer
“There is no greater power on this earth than story.”
Libba Bray book The Diviners
Source: The Diviners
“Death is sometimes kinder than Love.”
Rick Riordan book The House of Hades
Source: The House of Hades
“You are you that is truer than true”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
“The future is no more uncertain than the present.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
“The universe is wider than our views of it.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Source: Walden & Civil Disobedience
“Love is a better master than duty.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity