In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
Henry David ThoreauSincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
Lao TzuCertain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl JungSlavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Abraham LincolnAll who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin FranklinThere may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.
Margaret AtwoodYesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
Hunter S. ThompsonWe are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘
Carl SaganDo everything as in the eye of another.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
VoltaireWe should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Fyodor DostoevskyThe fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard ShawNothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas CarlyleKeep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin FranklinI wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Khalil GibranI think God’s justice is making wrongs right.
Joel OsteenI think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence NightingaleReligion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mahatma GandhiIf man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Blaise PascalI have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Albert SchweitzerNo policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
Abraham LincolnWe’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.
Anthony HopkinsHappy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Albert EinsteinThought is the parent of the deed.
Thomas CarlyleYou can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
Paulo CoelhoNothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas CarlyleThe formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.
Fyodor DostoevskyA man’s character is his guardian divinity.
HeraclitusChildren wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William ShakespeareEverything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Marcus AureliusOld men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard ShawChildren are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOn a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.
Alice WalkerIf it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
Steven WrightLet us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George WashingtonConscience is a man’s compass.
Vincent Van GoghThe words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao TzuWhat do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Friedrich NietzscheThe universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWisdom begins in wonder.
SocratesYou just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘
RihannaWe can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaAll things truly wicked start from innocence.
Ernest HemingwayAtheism is a non-prophet organization.
George CarlinIt is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLike all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin DisraeliEverything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
Albert SchweitzerI believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
Stephen HawkingOne must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise PascalThe truth is lived, not taught.
Hermann HesseWhat is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar WildeWhen one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Friedrich NietzscheTo go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
ConfuciusI would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.
Joan of ArcNever let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus AureliusTruths and roses have thorns about them.
Henry David Thoreau