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100 superlative quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

100 superlative quotes, some of the best aphorisms written by great and famous authors during the centuries to help us understanding the world where we live in, 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

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.<\/span>
\nMichel de Montaigne<\/span><\/p>\n

Books are useless. A man needs someone… to be by his side.<\/span>
\nJohn Ernst Steinbeck<\/span><\/p>\n

Certainly money won\u2019t solve all your problems, but at least it will solve your money problems.<\/span>
\nNaval Ravikant<\/span><\/p>\n

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.<\/span>
\nAdam Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.<\/span>
\nDiogenes<\/span><\/p>\n

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.<\/span>
\nAnais Nin<\/span><\/p>\n

Eyes and ears are bad witnesses for men who have barbarian souls.<\/span>
\nHeraclitus<\/span><\/p>\n

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.<\/span>
\nRobert Louis Stevenson<\/span><\/p>\n

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul. <\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

Be silent, or let thy words be worth more than silence.<\/span>
\nPythagoras<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.<\/span>
\nWilliam E. Gladstone<\/span><\/p>\n

Devoted to our politicians. “Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths? <\/span>
\nLewis Carroll<\/span><\/p>\n

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

If you see everything gray in front of you, move the elephant.<\/span>
\nIndian proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

A man however well behaved, is a monkey shaved.<\/span>
\nCharles Darwin<\/span><\/p>\n

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

There is but one thing of real value – to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Superlative<\/a>
Superlative quotes J.P. Sartre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All your religious conclusions have no meaning. You must be able to look at this life that you lead every day and be able to see it exactly as it is.<\/span>
\nKrishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

Sadness is caused by intelligence. The more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn’t understand them.<\/span>
\nCharles Bukowski<\/span><\/p>\n

Quid est quod est? Ipsum quod fuit. Quid est quod fuit? Ipsum quod est. Nihil sub sole novum.<\/span>
\nGiordano Bruno<\/span><\/p>\n

At Christmas everyone is better. It’s what happens before and after that worries me.<\/span>
\nLucy van Pelt<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.<\/span>
\nBill Maher<\/span><\/p>\n

Chi si illude di creare spesso distrugge e chi soffre distruggendo, talvolta crea.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Vi \u00e8 un modo di ritornare dalla fantasia alla realt\u00e0 e questo modo \u00e8 l’arte.<\/span>
\nSigmund Freud<\/span><\/p>\n

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

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.<\/span>
\nSoren kierkegaard<\/span><\/p>\n

Believe those who are finding truth. Doubt those who find it.<\/span>
\nAndre Gide<\/span><\/p>\n

Politics have no relation to morals.<\/span>
\nNiccol\u00f2 Macchiavelli<\/span><\/p>\n

If there is something that can replace love, it is memory.<\/span>
\nJoseph Brodski<\/span><\/p>\n

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive\u2014to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.<\/span>
\nSun Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.<\/span>
\nGiordano Bruno<\/span><\/p>\n

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.<\/span>
\nPercy Bysshe Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.<\/span>
\nThomas Mann<\/span><\/p>\n

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.<\/span>
\nHermann Hesse<\/span><\/p>\n

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.<\/span>
\nIsaac Asimov<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Suprelative<\/a>
Suprelative quotes Erasmus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I await your sentence with less fear than you pronounce it. The time will come when everyone will see what I see.<\/span>
\nGiordano Bruno<\/span><\/p>\n

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.<\/span>
\nLudwig Wittgenstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowing how to die in one century means living for all the centuries to come.<\/span>
\nGiordano Bruno<\/span><\/p>\n

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.<\/span>
\nH.L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Evil comes up softly like a flower.<\/span>
\nCharles Baudelaire<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.<\/span>
\nDante Alighieri<\/span><\/p>\n

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.<\/span>
\nMarcel Proust<\/span><\/p>\n

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.<\/span>
\nJean-Paul Sartre<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest teacher is not the one who imparts knowledge, but the one who inspires curiosity.<\/span>
\nTimotheus of Miletus<\/span><\/p>\n

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

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.<\/span>
\nKarl R. Popper<\/span><\/p>\n

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.<\/span>
\nTsS. Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity, arrogance they have. All these madmen, however, find other madmen who applaud them.<\/span>
\nErasmus<\/span><\/p>\n

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.<\/span>
\nHermann Hesse<\/span><\/p>\n

I libri non servono a niente. A un uomo occorre qualcuno… che gli stia accanto.<\/span>
\nJohn Ernst Steinbeck<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.<\/span>
\nMartha C. Nussbaum<\/span><\/p>\n

Si ripaga male un maestro, se si rimane sempre e solo un discepolo.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

As Fyodor Dostoyevsky used to say in “The Idiot”, the Russian soul is a dark place, and I would add that it also a very stupid and cruel one.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.<\/span>
\nGuy de Maupassant<\/span><\/p>\n

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

The Russian soul is a dark place.<\/span>
\nFyodor Dostoyevsky<\/span><\/p>\n

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

To know how to die in one century, is to live for all centuries to come. <\/span>
\nGiordano Bruno<\/span><\/p>\n

Books are useless. A man needs someone… to be by his side.<\/span>
\nJohn Ernst Steinbeck<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.<\/span>
\nMartin Luther King Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.<\/span>
\nBill Maher<\/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

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

There are people who are filled with knowledge, but empty with mercy and love.<\/span>
\nJonathan Edwards<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest part of a writer\u2019s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.<\/span>
\nSamuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

Poetry comes to man as consolation in the form of beauty and allows even the horrid to be loved and contemplated: it makes the disgusting and the sublime compatible, in the perfection of the figure.<\/span>
\nSalvatore Natoli<\/span><\/p>\n

Tragedy, arising from the deep source of compassion, is in its essence pessimistic. In it, existence is something supremely terrible, man is something supremely foolish.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

What has been is what will be. And what has been done is what will be done. There is nothing new under the sun.<\/span>
\nGiordano Bruno<\/span><\/p>\n

This life\u2019s hard, but it\u2019s harder if you\u2019re stupid.<\/span>
\nGeorge V. Higgins<\/span><\/p>\n

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.<\/span>
\nNassim Nicholas Taleb<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, complete happiness cannot silence the pain. Less than ever can the art that consoles, the technique that produces, the virtue that administers.<\/span>
\nSalvatore Natoli<\/span><\/p>\n

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

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.<\/span>
\nFyodor Dostoyevsky<\/span><\/p>\n

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.<\/span>
\nMary Boykin Chestnut<\/span><\/p>\n

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.<\/span>
\nArundhati Roy<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.<\/span>
\nJerome Cady<\/span><\/p>\n

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.<\/span>
\nEdith Wharton<\/span><\/p>\n

There are actually many who read so they don’t have to think.<\/span>
\nLichtenberg<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Wonderful<\/a>
Wonderful Rumi quote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin.<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.<\/span>
\nEdward Teller<\/span><\/p>\n

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t just say that you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better. <\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.<\/span>
\nJonathan Swift<\/span><\/p>\n

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.<\/span>
\nRene Descartes<\/span><\/p>\n

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.<\/span>
\nHarriet Beecher Stowe<\/span><\/p>\n

Education means development of the mind so that it will work for you and not against you. All education is self-acquired because no one can educate another.<\/span>
\nNapoleon Hill<\/span><\/p>\n

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

A philosopher who says: “There are no truths, but only interpretations” risks the retort: “Is that true, or only an interpretation?.”<\/span>
\nRoger Scruton<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.<\/span>
\nRoy. T. Bennett<\/span><\/p>\n

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles.<\/span>
\nNiccol\u00f2 Machiavelli<\/span><\/p>\n

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.<\/span>
\nLeo Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

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