The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
VoltaireWhoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert EinsteinWar does not determine who is right – only who is left.
Bertrand RussellThere’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.
Paul AusterDesire is the very essence of man.
Baruch SpinozaWho is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinThe abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Friedrich NietzscheAnd finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.
Anne FrankThe only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar WildeA physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWell before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.
Noam ChomskyEverybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.
Robert GreeneWhere knowledge ends, religion begins.
Benjamin DisraeliReligion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand RussellWe shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
Henry David ThoreauSay not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘
Khalil GibranAn overflow of good converts to bad.
William ShakespeareTalking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich NietzscheThat’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.
Jordan PetersonWar will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John F. KennedyThere are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
Noam ChomskyWe write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
Maya AngelouIf there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl JungI do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Lao TzuThe impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
Douglas AdamsChaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Henry AdamsWhat the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
AristotleThe sinews of war are infinite money.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThat old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl JungWhen you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil GibranA perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard ShawI often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.
Marilyn MonroeProperty is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
Bob MarleyAnd whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin FranklinIf a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
Albert SchweitzerWar settles nothing.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWhen a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
John RuskinThere are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
H. L. MenckenWhat we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.
Billy GrahamWar has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich NietzscheThe savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Henry David ThoreauThose whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar WildeAt his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
AristotleI think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand RussellProbably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
George OrwellMore gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon HillMan’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise PascalEthics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand RussellWe are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheYounger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.
Kurt VonnegutI wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.
Henry David ThoreauYou are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.
Thich Nhat HanhThe price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David ThoreauI’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.
Muhammad AliWell, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.
Christopher HitchensThe ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Andrew CarnegieI don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.
Billie Eilish