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\"100<\/a>
100 very brilliant quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

100 very brilliant quotes, a collection of very famous aphorisms by great authors of all time to give you some deep words of wisdom for your important life; 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

Men are almost as good to the dead as they are wicked to the living.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

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

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.<\/span>
\nCarl Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.<\/span>
\nChanakya<\/span><\/p>\n

Miserable is that love that needs words to express itself.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Education isn’t something you can finish.<\/span>
\nIsaac Asimov<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowing yourself is The best fighterthe beginning of all wisdom.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.<\/span>
\nBlaise Pascal<\/span><\/p>\n

To tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country.<\/span>
\nRabindranath Tagore<\/span><\/p>\n

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.<\/span>
\nMontesquieu<\/span><\/p>\n

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.<\/span>
\nZeno of Citium<\/span><\/p>\n

Politics has no relation to morality.<\/span>
\nNiccol\u00f2 Macchiavelli<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.<\/span>
\nHeinrich Mann<\/span><\/p>\n

No artist tolerates reality.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

In humorous religion, contrary to other cults, one can sometimes also blaspheme, certainly not in public, but only when one is praying in solitude.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

A sadist. A paranoid psychopath with a delusion of greatness and overvalued ideas. Pathological liar. Self esteem is inadequate. Intelligence is low. His personality is deteriorating rapidly. Lives in a parallel world, detached from reality, completely out of touch with reality. He doesn\u2019t understand her.<\/span>
\nValery Novodvorska<\/span><\/p>\n

He (Paracelsus) was the first man to write scientific books in the language of common people, so that all could read them.<\/span>
\nManly P. Hall<\/span><\/p>\n

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.<\/span>
\nIsaac Asimov<\/span><\/p>\n

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.<\/span>
\nCharles Addams<\/span><\/p>\n

Insisting on calling Tsar, the miserable Putrid, clearly highlights the slavish imbecility of many journalists around the world, and certainly makes them more morons than what the great Shakespeare would rightly have called, \u201ca poor capocchia\u201d.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Carl<\/a>
Carl Jung brilliant quote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Better to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. <\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.<\/span>
\nDaniel J. Boorstin<\/span><\/p>\n

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.<\/span>
\nBaruch Spinoza<\/span><\/p>\n

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.<\/span>
\nGeorge Orwell<\/span><\/p>\n

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.<\/span>
\nRene Descartes<\/span><\/p>\n

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.<\/span>
\nAntisthenes<\/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

DA Datta, DA Dayadhvam, DA Damyata, shantih, shantih, shantih! (Give, sympathize, control, peace, peace, peace).<\/span>
\nT.S. Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.<\/span>
\nImmanuel Kant<\/span><\/p>\n

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. Quote me as saying I said that, and you may be sure of having the authorship of it.<\/span>
\nSamuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

We think too much and feel too little.<\/span>
\nCharlie Chaplin<\/span><\/p>\n

Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver.<\/span>
\nLev Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

The painful sarcastic bitter parable of life. At the beginning you are born alone and in the end you will die alone, but in the middle you are going to meet an incredible number of blighter! <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

All truths that are kept silent become poisonous.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.<\/span>
\nWilliam Wordsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

You can also commit injustice, by doing nothing.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The happiest people<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.<\/span>
\nOrson Wells<\/span><\/p>\n

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can’t tell the truth without lying.<\/span>
\nJosh Billings<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think.<\/span>
\nFrida Khalo<\/span><\/p>\n

Books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good; Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.<\/span>
\nWilliam Wordsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

It is better to die misunderstood than to spend your life explaining yourself.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

If this science, which will bring great benefits to man, will not help man to understand himself, it will end up turning against man.<\/span>
\nGiordano Bruno<\/span><\/p>\n

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.<\/span>
\nXenophanes<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, because it trains people what to think. <\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.<\/span>
\nDaniel J. Boorstin<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately our planet is more and more full of increasingly empty men, to quote Eliot, shapeless figures, colorless shadows, not souls, lost and violent, but only, empty men, stuffed men, created by the taxidermists of stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/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

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.<\/span>
\nImmanuel Kant<\/span><\/p>\n

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. Quote me as saying I said that, and you may be sure of having the authorship of it.<\/span>
\nSamuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

Tell me what you know, and I shall know what manner of person you are, or if you do not know.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

It is safer to be silent than to reveal one\u2019s secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.<\/span>
\nSaadi<\/span><\/p>\n

Ci sono delle persone cos\u00ec povere che l’unica cosa che hanno sono i soldi.<\/span>
\nMadre Teresa di Calcutta<\/span><\/p>\n

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.<\/span>
\nVincent Van Gogh<\/span><\/p>\n

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.<\/span>
\nSoren Kierkegaard<\/span><\/p>\n

You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.<\/span>
\nSophocles<\/span><\/p>\n

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

Humor is next to Godliness.<\/span>
\nSinclair Lewis, Mantrap<\/span><\/p>\n

La tradizione \u00e8 la componente statica della cultura, ma l’essere umnano \u00e8 una macchina termodinamica fatta per muoversi.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Every man is a creature of the age in which lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of time.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

Il conflitto tra Russia e Ukraina \u00e8 una guerra fratricida che non dimostra altro che l’imbecillit\u00e0 delle sue cause e del suo principale fautore, ovvero il penoso presidente Putrid.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Nietzsche<\/a>
Nietzsche brilliant quote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.<\/span>
\nZeno of Citium<\/span><\/p>\n

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.<\/span>
\nChanakya<\/span><\/p>\n

So you see, the universe is made up by protons, electrons, neutrons and morons.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

All truths that are kept silent become poisonous.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.<\/span>
\nMichel de Montaigne<\/span><\/p>\n

If you can laugh at yourself, then there are few things you couldn’t laugh at.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.<\/span>
\nMarcus Tullius Cicero<\/span><\/p>\n

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent – people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.<\/span>
\nErich Fromm<\/span><\/p>\n

How could you rise anew, if you have not first became ashes.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Many are helpful, none are essential, but most are of little use at all.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

But if the radiant light that once shone is now forever removed from my gaze, if nothing can cause the grass to renew its splendor and revive the flower, we will not sleep over the baleful fate, but even more steadfast in<\/span><\/span> chest we will enjoy what is left.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nWilliam Wordsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty: or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man\u2019s self.<\/span>
\nFrancis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known ignorance.<\/span>
\nChuang Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, and beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.<\/span>
\nLeo Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain thought without accepting it.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.<\/span>
\nKurt Vonnegut<\/span><\/p>\n

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.<\/span>
\nJacob August Riis<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is such a great teacher that when you don\u2019t learn a lesson, It will repeat it. <\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

The challenges you face introduce you to your strengths.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

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

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.<\/span>
\nHelen Keller<\/span><\/p>\n

The first and main erogenous zone is the mind.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nRichard Alan Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

If everyone is thinking alike, than someone isn’t thinking.<\/span>
\nGen. Geroge Patton<\/span><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The best fighter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.<\/span>
\nAlbert Camus<\/span><\/p>\n

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.<\/span>
\nMarilyn vos Savant<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the difference between a convinced and a deceived?<\/span><\/span> None, if he has been well deceived.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your hearts desire. The other is to get it. <\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead. Walk beside me… just be my friend.<\/span>
\nAlbert Camus<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t worry about siding for or against the majority. Worry about taking up any of their irrational beliefs.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.<\/span>
\nFyodor Dostoevsky<\/span><\/p>\n

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.<\/span>
\nSigmund Freud<\/span><\/p>\n

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.<\/span>
\nJohn Donne<\/span><\/p>\n

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven, unless its roots reach down to hell.<\/span>
\nCarl Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

The worst kind of pain do not come from your enemies, but from the people who you trust and love.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

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