George Bernard Shaw
Like: "A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable."
"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."
"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!"
"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."
"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."
"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."
"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."
"The art of government is the organisation of idolatry."
"The love of economy is the root of all virtue."
"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it"
"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it sounds like."
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"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess..." - Oscar Wilde
"In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane."
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
"True friends stab you in the front."
"Who, being loved, is poor?"
"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
"Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do"
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her." -Oscar Wilde
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." - Oscar Wilde
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - Oscar Wilde
"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
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Friedrich Schiller
"A noble heart will always capitulate to reason."
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain."
"Appearance rules the world."
"Freedom can occur only through education."
"Live with your century; but do not be its creature."
"No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart."
"The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages."
"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become." Buddha
"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows." Buddha
"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." Buddha
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." Buddha
"You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself." Buddha
"However many holy words you read,However many you speak,What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?" Buddha
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." Buddha
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"In all things it is better to hope than to despair." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us self-control is disastrous." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Prejudices are what fools use for reason." Voltaire
"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road." Voltaire
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"Nobody can hurt me without my permission." Mahatma Gandhi
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"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion!" Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed as an instance of dialectic. We are aware that everything finite, instead of being inflexible, is rather changeable and transient; and this is exactly what we mean by the dialectic of the finite, by which the finite, as implicitly other than it is, is forced to surrender its own immediate or natural being, and turn suddenly into its opposite." Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"To be free is nothing, to become free is everything." Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it." Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions." Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Nietzsche
"Perhaps the great majority of men find it necessary, in order to maintain their self respect and a certain effectiveness in their actions, to lower and belittle the image they form of everyone they know."
"We praise or find fault, depending on which of the two provides more opportunity for our powers of judgement to shine."
"Most men are much too concerned with themselves to be malicious."
"If one does not know how painful an action is, it cannot be malicious; thus the child is not malicious or evil to an animal: he examines and destroys it like a toy."
"One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary."
"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity."
More from another thread...:
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. "
"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior."
"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child." [apparently he hasn't had the foresight to envisage the UK, Italy etc. and in particular the ****** sites... ]
"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."
"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."
"Woman was God's second mistake."
"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."
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A few by Eugene Ionesco
"A man with a soul is not like every other man."
"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind."
"Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches."
"I've always been suspicious of collective truths."
"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
"Mindful of his own dignity, he is mindful of others', because he wishes to safeguard what is in fact the essence of man's value, no one is replacable. It is in this way, in this solitude, that he finds friendship and a friendly society, rather than the flock or the herd."
"There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation."
"There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to "realize" myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have "succeeded," this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is "realizable." Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is."
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"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis" - Dante Alighieri
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"Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti!"
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"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto."
Translation:
"I am human, so nothing that is human is foreign to me."
Like: "A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable."
"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."
"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!"
"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."
"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."
"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."
"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."
"The art of government is the organisation of idolatry."
"The love of economy is the root of all virtue."
"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it"
"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it sounds like."
==============================
"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess..." - Oscar Wilde
"In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane."
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
"True friends stab you in the front."
"Who, being loved, is poor?"
"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
"Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do"
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her." -Oscar Wilde
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." - Oscar Wilde
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - Oscar Wilde
"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
=================================
Friedrich Schiller
"A noble heart will always capitulate to reason."
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain."
"Appearance rules the world."
"Freedom can occur only through education."
"Live with your century; but do not be its creature."
"No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart."
"The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages."
"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."
===============================
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become." Buddha
"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows." Buddha
"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." Buddha
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." Buddha
"You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself." Buddha
"However many holy words you read,However many you speak,What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?" Buddha
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." Buddha
=====================================
"In all things it is better to hope than to despair." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us self-control is disastrous." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
======================================
"Prejudices are what fools use for reason." Voltaire
"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road." Voltaire
======================================
"Nobody can hurt me without my permission." Mahatma Gandhi
======================================
"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion!" Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed as an instance of dialectic. We are aware that everything finite, instead of being inflexible, is rather changeable and transient; and this is exactly what we mean by the dialectic of the finite, by which the finite, as implicitly other than it is, is forced to surrender its own immediate or natural being, and turn suddenly into its opposite." Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"To be free is nothing, to become free is everything." Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it." Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions." Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
======================================
Nietzsche
"Perhaps the great majority of men find it necessary, in order to maintain their self respect and a certain effectiveness in their actions, to lower and belittle the image they form of everyone they know."
"We praise or find fault, depending on which of the two provides more opportunity for our powers of judgement to shine."
"Most men are much too concerned with themselves to be malicious."
"If one does not know how painful an action is, it cannot be malicious; thus the child is not malicious or evil to an animal: he examines and destroys it like a toy."
"One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary."
"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity."
More from another thread...:
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. "
"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior."
"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child." [apparently he hasn't had the foresight to envisage the UK, Italy etc. and in particular the ****** sites... ]
"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."
"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."
"Woman was God's second mistake."
"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."
===================================
A few by Eugene Ionesco
"A man with a soul is not like every other man."
"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind."
"Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches."
"I've always been suspicious of collective truths."
"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
"Mindful of his own dignity, he is mindful of others', because he wishes to safeguard what is in fact the essence of man's value, no one is replacable. It is in this way, in this solitude, that he finds friendship and a friendly society, rather than the flock or the herd."
"There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation."
"There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to "realize" myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have "succeeded," this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is "realizable." Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is."
=======================================
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis" - Dante Alighieri
=======================================
"Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti!"
=======================================
"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto."
Translation:
"I am human, so nothing that is human is foreign to me."