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100 excellent quotes and aphorisms by great and famous authors to inspire your thoughts, give new life to your ideas and stimulate your critical thinking skills, edited for the World of English blog by Carl William Brown<\/a>, a sincere literary avenger. (Find out more about him on Amazon).<\/span><\/p>\n

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish dictatorship.<\/span>
\nGeorge Orwell<\/span><\/p>\n

To find yourself, think for yourself.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.<\/span>
\nEdgar Allan Poe<\/span><\/p>\n

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.<\/span>
\nCharlie Chaplin<\/span><\/p>\n

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness and the theologian all the stupidity.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasure of illusion.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.<\/span>
\nErnest Hemingway<\/span><\/p>\n

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.<\/span>
\nSigmund Freud<\/span><\/p>\n

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us.<\/span>
\nFranz Kafka<\/span><\/p>\n

One cannot step twice in the same river.<\/span>
\nHeraclitus<\/span><\/p>\n

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True wisdom lies in one’s confession about the limits of one’s knowledge.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.<\/span>
\nGordon Allport<\/span><\/p>\n

A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.<\/span>
\nWilliam Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.<\/span>
\nSophocles<\/span><\/p>\n

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Know that the body is merely a garment. Go, seek the wearer, not the cloak.<\/span>
\nRumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.<\/span>
\nJames Bryce<\/span><\/p>\n

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.<\/span>
\nRene Descartes<\/span><\/p>\n

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.<\/span>
\nImmanuel Kant<\/span><\/p>\n

The universities do not teach all things… So a doctor must seek old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller… Knowledge is experience.<\/span>
\nParacelsus<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is truth, truth beauty.<\/span>
\nJohn Keats<\/span><\/p>\n

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, havegreat sadness on earth.<\/span>
\nFyodor Dostoevsky<\/span><\/p>\n

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.<\/span>
\nJohann Sebastian Bach<\/span><\/p>\n

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Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nieztsche<\/span><\/p>\n

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.<\/span>
\nHenrik Ibsen<\/span><\/p>\n

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.<\/span>
\nEpicurus<\/span><\/p>\n

Be a free thinker and don\u2019t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

If my soldiers started thinking, no one would stay in my ranks.<\/span>
\nFrederick II King of Prussia<\/span><\/p>\n

Miserable dictators who rave about a new world order, while governing nations of poor sheep, confirm that we live in the toilet of the universe, animated by the supreme and chaotic entropy of their total stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin’<\/span><\/p>\n

Any soldier who fights for money and for a dictator is a waste of society, an object without a brain, only capable of a good action, that of dying. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

We have art in order not to die of truth.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nieztsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.<\/span>
\nRobert Frost<\/span><\/p>\n

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in a large group.<\/span>
\nGeorge Carlin<\/span><\/p>\n

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.<\/span>
\nJorge Luis Borges<\/span><\/p>\n

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

To the poor Chomsky, about what he said on ChatGPT, I would answer with an aphorisms by Carmelo Bene, who once said: “A work is not by an author, and neither is life”.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

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Frederick II King of Prussia once said: “If my soldiers started thinking, no one would stay in my ranks.”. That’s why a dictator who favors war is without brain just as well, capable of nothing, but only a good action, that of dying. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.<\/span>
\nAleksandr Solzhenitsyn<\/span><\/p>\n

When the student is ready the teacher appears. When the student is truly ready, the teacher disappears.<\/span>
\nLao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.<\/span>
\nImmanuel Kant<\/span><\/p>\n

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.<\/span>
\nAlfred North Whitehead<\/span><\/p>\n

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.<\/span>
\nGeroge Orwell<\/span><\/p>\n

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.<\/span>
\nWilliam James<\/span><\/p>\n

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.<\/span>
\nHannah Arendt<\/span><\/p>\n

Thinking in itsself is very dangerous, as Hannah Arendt said, avove all if you are under the supreme cruel power of human stupidity, as Mr. Putrid shows us.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.<\/span>
\nBertolt Brecht<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is nothing but a reckless, unaware, risky, and incautious bet that in the end everyone is doomed to lose. So you\u2019d better get used!<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.<\/span>
\nRene Descartes<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life\u2019s tragedy.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

The human species is mainly made up of people who do nothing but fill the sewers and pollute the environment in which they live, an endless mass of donkeys who unfortunately believe themselves to be horses and since they even believe to have a religious spirituality, they are also quite convinced to gain eternal life.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.<\/span>
\nSoren Kierkegaard<\/span><\/p>\n

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Humor is definitely a form of religion, of course it\u2019s not as generous and solid as other traditional forms of worship. To his faithful theorists, pratictioners or even to his martyrs he cannot certainly offer virgin maidens in his paradise, as Islam does; in any case one must be satisfied, at the limit it can offer a dramatis personae disguised as a joker, or if you prefer, a kind of fool!<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.<\/span>
\nVictor Hugo<\/span><\/p>\n

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Schiller<\/span><\/p>\n

Sadness is caused by intelligence, the more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn\u2019t understand them.<\/span>
\nCharles Bukowski<\/span><\/p>\n

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.<\/span>
\nAesop<\/span><\/p>\n

Society often forgives the offender, never forgives the dreamer.<\/span><\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation – creation – there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

One can hardly read our history without conceiving a horror for mankind.<\/span><\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.<\/span>
\nGeorge Orwell<\/span><\/p>\n

For all evils, there are two remedies – time and silence.<\/span>
\nAlexandre Dumas<\/span><\/p>\n

Giordano Bruno and the roots of our culture in the light of the darkness of holy imbecility.<\/span><\/span> In fact, the roots of our culture are Catholic Christians, since if you tried to have other roots, they would burn you alive.<\/span><\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.<\/span>
\nThomas Paine<\/span><\/p>\n

Humans arose, rather, as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness.<\/span>
\nStephen Jay Gould<\/span><\/p>\n

The first thing that reading teaches is how to be alone.<\/span><\/span>
\nJonathan Franzen<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it’s that they know so many things that just aren’t so.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

A noble heart will refuse happiness built on misfortune of others.<\/span>
\nSaadi<\/span><\/p>\n

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.<\/span>
\nLao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.<\/span>
\nEdmund Burke<\/span><\/p>\n

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The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.<\/span>
\nOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n

When all think alike, then no one is thinking.<\/span>
\nWalter Lippmann<\/span><\/p>\n

Television is the mirror where the defeat of our entire cultural system is reflected.<\/span><\/span>
\nFederico Fellini<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Day by day, what you think and what you do is who you become.<\/span>
\nHeraclitus<\/span><\/p>\n

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man\u2019s.<\/span>
\nWilliam Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be lived.<\/span>
\nS\u00f8ren Kierkegaard<\/span><\/p>\n

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.<\/span>
\nEuripides<\/span><\/p>\n

Without goals, the very concept of intelligence is meaningless.<\/span>
\nSteven Pinker<\/span><\/p>\n

What worries you, masters you.<\/span>
\nJohn Locke<\/span><\/p>\n

Art is to console those who are broken by life. <\/span>
\nVincent Van Gogh<\/span><\/p>\n

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.<\/span>
\nRen\u00e9 Descartes<\/span><\/p>\n

Humanity is as if immersed in sleep, it is interested only in what is useless and lives in the world of error.<\/span><\/span> Hakim Sanai<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You are wealthy when you can freely decide what to do with your time.<\/span>
\nVala Afshar<\/span><\/p>\n

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.<\/span>
\nMontaigne<\/span><\/p>\n

There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.<\/span>
\nSamuel Taylor Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.<\/span>
\nDiogenes<\/span><\/p>\n

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