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\"100<\/a>
100 Magnificent quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

100 magnificent quotes, great aphorisms, ideas, maxims and quotations by various famous authors selected 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

Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.<\/span>
\nHermann Hesse<\/span><\/p>\n

Madness is something rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.<\/span>
\nCharlie Chaplin<\/span><\/p>\n

Aphorisms are the true form of the Universal Philosophy and containe the greatest quantity of thought in the smallest space.<\/span>
\nFriedrich von Schlegel<\/span><\/p>\n

Educate the children and it won\u2019t be necessary to punish the men.<\/span>
\nPythagoras<\/span><\/p>\n

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.<\/span>
\nIsaac Asimov<\/span><\/p>\n

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

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.<\/span>
\nMikhail Bulgakov<\/span><\/p>\n

No one’s fate is of any interest to you except your own.<\/span>
\nMikhail Bulgakov<\/span><\/p>\n

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

The reason I talk to myself is because I\u2019m the only one whose answers I accept.<\/span>
\nGeorge Carlin<\/span><\/p>\n

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offence at everything.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

By now humanity has become so imbecile that we often tend to mortify intelligence, in order not to offend stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Show respect to people who don’t even deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.<\/span>
\nDave Willis<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the number of bad books.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

The more real you get, the more unreal the world gets.<\/span>
\nJohn Lennon<\/span><\/p>\n

The more intelligence you have, the more you will suffer.<\/span><\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Voltaire<\/a>
Voltaire quote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.<\/span>
\nAbraham Lincoln<\/span><\/p>\n

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

Love on one side is not enough, love is a dialogue, not a monologue.<\/span><\/span>
\nOriana Fallaci<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Interacting with people that don’t like you it’s a fundamental process to study human stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The measure of a man is what he does with power.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, and never give up.<\/span>
\nRegina Brett<\/span><\/p>\n

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.<\/span>
\nVictor Hugo<\/span><\/p>\n

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

From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs.<\/span>
\nKarl Marx<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.<\/span>
\nIsaac Asimov<\/span><\/p>\n

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.<\/span>
\nGoethe<\/span><\/p>\n

I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face.<\/span>
\nFranz Kafka<\/span><\/p>\n

Without love living is easy; but it’s meaningless.<\/span>
\nLeo Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It’s something you have to find out for yourself.<\/span>
\nNoam Chomsky<\/span><\/p>\n

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!<\/span>
\nBob Marley<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.<\/span>
\nLincoln<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not the man who has too little, but ht eman who craves more, that is poor.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

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

You can\u2019t get much done in life if you only work on days when you feel good. <\/span>
\nJerry West<\/span><\/p>\n

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

In our society logics is intertwingled with nonsense, good things with evils ones, and most of the time you can’t tell which is which, therefore there is nothing more truly realistic than stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.<\/span>
\nThales<\/span><\/p>\n

To destroy war, destroy patriotism.<\/span>
\nLeo Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t trust anyone who\u2019s nice to me, but rude to a waiter because they would treat me the same if I were in that position.<\/span>
\nMuhammad Ali<\/span><\/p>\n

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.<\/span>
\nPablo Picasso<\/span><\/p>\n

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.<\/span>
\nAlber Camus<\/span><\/p>\n

Non serve a niente essere vivi, se bisogna lavorare.<\/span>
\nAndr\u00e9 Breton<\/span><\/p>\n

All cruelty spring from weakness.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

Be careful what you tolerate, you are teaching people how to treat you.<\/span>
\nDr. Phil McGraw<\/span><\/p>\n

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.<\/span>
\nBob Marley<\/span><\/p>\n

For the Putrid President of Russia, remember Sun Tzu wise words, that is to say, the greatest victory is that which requires no battle.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Get busy with life’s purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.<\/span>
\nMarshall McLuhan<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is such a great a teacher that when we don’t learn a lesson, it will repeat it.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the small one.<\/span>
\nPericles<\/span><\/p>\n

A bad system will beat a good person every time.<\/span>
\nW. Edwards Deming<\/span><\/p>\n

Our life is what our thoughts make it, used to say Marcus Aurelius, but I would add that sometimes it is even worse!<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Chomsky<\/a>
Chomsky quote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Simplicity is not a mere idea. To be simple demnds a great deal of intelligence and sensitivity.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

Disturbance comes only from within, from our own perceptions.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously. <\/span>
\nHerman Hesse<\/span><\/p>\n

The longer I live, the more convinced I am that this planet is being used by other planets as a madhouse of the universe.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. <\/span>
\nC.S. Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.<\/span>
\nC.S. Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. <\/span>
\nBruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

We have freedom of thought, now we need thought.<\/span>
\nCarl Kraus<\/span><\/p>\n

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.<\/span>
\nAlbert Camus<\/span><\/p>\n

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.<\/span>
\nCharles Dickens<\/span><\/p>\n

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

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them knows anything about the subject.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Never depend on the admiration of others. There is no strength in it. Personal merit cannot be derived from an external source.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

The old world is dying, the new world is slow to appear and in this chiaroscuro the monsters arise.<\/span>
\nAntonio Gramsci<\/span><\/p>\n

In most men, intelligence is a field which remains uncultivated for most of life.<\/span>
\nEug\u00e8ne Delacroix<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.<\/span>
\nAlbert Camus<\/span><\/p>\n

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.<\/span>
\nHelen Keller<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Karl<\/a>
Karl Marx<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.<\/span>
\nEugene Delacroix<\/span><\/p>\n

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.<\/span>
\nHelen Keller<\/span><\/p>\n

An honest man is always a child.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

Open your mind before your mouth.<\/span>
\nAristophanes<\/span><\/p>\n

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.<\/span>
\nWilliam B. Yeats<\/span><\/p>\n

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is the state in which man sees things most decidedly as they are not.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.<\/span>
\nAnton Chekhov<\/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

I no longer know if I wish to drown myself in love, wodka or the sea.<\/span>
\nFranz Kafka<\/span><\/p>\n

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

There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.<\/span>
\nLeo Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.<\/span>
\nSigmund Freud<\/span><\/p>\n

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.<\/span>
\nCharles Darwin<\/span><\/p>\n

Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.<\/span>
\nSoren Kierkegaard<\/span><\/p>\n

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don\u2019t.<\/span>
\nPhilip K Dick<\/span><\/p>\n

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.<\/span>
\nGoethe<\/span><\/p>\n

\"100<\/a>
100 magnificent quotes to read<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force. <\/span>
\nHerman Hesse<\/span><\/p>\n

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.<\/span>
\nBob Marley<\/span><\/p>\n

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of individualism that the world has known. <\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyday is like a fashion show and the whole world is the runway. Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.<\/span>
\nCoco Chanel<\/span><\/p>\n

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.<\/span>
\nHarry Emerson Fosdick<\/span><\/p>\n

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.<\/span>
\nSeneca the Younger<\/span><\/p>\n

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone… but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.<\/span>
\nKahlil Gibran<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Love is the art that you never learn and always know.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nBenito P\u00e9rez Gald\u00f3s<\/span><\/p>\n

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/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

The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.<\/span>
\nSun Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.<\/span>
\nJane Austen<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.<\/span>
\nEpicurus<\/span><\/p>\n

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.<\/span>
\nThomas Merton<\/span><\/p>\n

For we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from it that we feel at once a sort of loathing for real life, and so cannot bear to be reminded of it.<\/span>
\nFyodor Dostoevsky<\/span><\/p>\n

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