{"id":165232,"date":"2026-07-16T13:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/?p=165232"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:21:40","slug":"100-marvellous-great-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/100-marvellous-great-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"100 marvellous great quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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100 marvellous great quotes and aphorisms by great and famous authors and writers 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

Audi doctrinam, si vis vitare ruinam: cum sine doctrina nil proficiat medicina.<\/span>
\nProverbium mediaevale<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem he must solve.<\/span>
\nErich Fromm<\/span><\/p>\n

When muslims become Osho’s followers I will trust them a little bit more. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Sobriety distinguishes, discriminates, and says no. Intoxication expands, unites, and says yes.<\/span>
\nWilliam James<\/span><\/p>\n

We’ll meet again in the gardens of memory, in the palace of dreams.<\/span>
\nLewis Caroll<\/span><\/p>\n

The ethics of knowledge and social justice do not exist; instead, there is the use of force, abuse of power, and institutionalized fraud to safeguard privilege, injustice, and the spread of stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The man who cannot create wants to destroy.<\/span>
\nErich Fromm<\/span><\/p>\n

Stupid people ask about God, the intelligent person asks about death. The people who go on asking about God never find God, and the person who asks about death is bound to find God<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

We survive by what we receive, but we live by what we give.<\/span>
\nCarl Gustav Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

Syncretinism is santanic! <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

What the herd hates most is a person who thinks differently.<\/span>
\nArthur Shopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Coniunctio or Coincidentia Oppositorum: if everything makes sense, then nothing makes sense; that’s why we live in a painful and absurd world.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

I turn cruel when I am empty, If I cannot be loved, I must be feared.<\/span>
\nNiccol\u00f2 Machiavelli<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Literature is a defence against the insults of life.<\/span>
\nCesare Pavese<\/span><\/p>\n

The result of every life is completely erroneous, so why the bothering of calculation, or of having faith.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.<\/span>
\nMargaret Mead<\/span><\/p>\n

To be happy you must eliminate two things: The fear of a bad future and The memory of a bad past.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

From the beginning till the end the entire life is a whole process of learning, of how useless it all has been.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

What are you afraid of losing, when nothing in the world actually belongs to you?<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

The human soul is “symphonic”; music is part of the profound nature.<\/span>
\nHildegard of Bingen<\/span><\/p>\n

Never play fair in a game where others cheat.<\/span>
\nNiccol\u00f2 Machiavelli<\/span><\/p>\n

Too many pacifists around, we need a good war here too, like in the good old days, the only hygiene for a world too full of idiots.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.<\/span>
\nHildegard von Bingen<\/span><\/p>\n

Humor is the weapon of the wise for it disarms the arrogant.<\/span>
\nAristophanes<\/span><\/p>\n

Silence was fundamental for Osho, also because most of the time, speaking is useless, given the ordinary human capacity for understanding.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The soul is the greening life force of the flesh, for the body grows and prospers through her, just as the earth becomes fruitful when it is moistened. The soul humidifies the body so it does not dry out, just like the rain which soaks into the earth.<\/span>
\nHildegard von Bingen<\/span><\/p>\n

Highly intelligent people cannot be evil, because evil requires stupidity and a limited mind.<\/span>
\nJ.P. Sartre<\/span><\/p>\n

I wouldn’t like to die alone; it would be better to be in good company, but whose one? Unfortunately, choices have always been my weakness.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Se viviamo, \u00e8 per camminare sulla testa dei Re.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

We cannot live in a world interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.<\/span>
\nHildegard von Bingen<\/span><\/p>\n

Never let the future disturb you. you will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason that arm you today, against the present.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In pursuit of the Tao, every day something is dropped.<\/span>
\nTao Te Ching<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn’t there, and finding it.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is defined not merely by the absence of war, but as a proactive state characterized by the presence of justice, equity, understanding, and human rights.<\/span>
\nMartin Luther King Via Baruch Spinoza<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.<\/span>
\nBaruch Spinoza<\/span><\/p>\n

In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.”<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

Stupid matter uses even its most brilliant scientific minds to spread its own harmful imbecility.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.<\/span>
\nMoliere<\/span><\/p>\n

A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.<\/span>
\nTerence McKenna<\/span><\/p>\n

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.<\/span>
\nJorge Luis Borges<\/span><\/p>\n

In my mother’s brain, the disease had devastated the garden of memory, but perhaps not yet the palace of dreams. Then, however, death came, and everything collapsed.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.<\/span>
\nDante<\/span><\/p>\n

You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.<\/span>
\nKarl Popper<\/span><\/p>\n

Reason is the root through which the resonant word blossoms.<\/span>
\nHildegard of Bingen<\/span><\/p>\n

Your emotions are servants, not masters. Keep them in line.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

We are all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.<\/span>
\nRudyard Kipling<\/span><\/p>\n

Galileo said that mathematics is the language in which the book of nature is written, ignoring the fact that nature has no need of books, nor of mathematics, nor of Galileo.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Celui qui serait sage n’aurait pas de fou; celui qui a un fou n’est pas sage; s’il n’est pas sage, il est fou; et peut-\u00eatre, f\u00fbt-il roi, le fou de son fou.<\/span>
\nDenis Diderot<\/span><\/p>\n

What sickens me about left-wing people, especially the intellectuals, is their utter ignorance of the way things actually happen.<\/span>
\nGeorge Orwell<\/span><\/p>\n

L’histoire ne vous fournit que des exemples de paix viol\u00e9es, de guerres injustes et cruelles, des champs d\u00e9vast\u00e9s de villes r\u00e9duites en cendres.<\/span>
\nDiderot Encyclop\u00e9die, article (Paix)<\/span><\/p>\n

Solitude is the school of genius.<\/span>
\nEdward Gibbon<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are not a master of yourself, then trying to be a master of others is just a substitute to befool yourself, to deceive yourself, and that is what the stupidity consists of.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no pain that the passage of time does not diminish or students. (Nullus pain est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat).<\/span>
\nMarcus Tullius Cicero<\/span><\/p>\n

The most stupid thinks that he is very intelligent. Hence you go on giving compliments to each other. All those compliments are lies \u2013 and everybody is ready to believe.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

Desiring life, in any case, and to the full extent of this desire, is nothing other than desiring unhappiness; desiring to live is as much as desiring to be unhappy.<\/span>
\nGiacomo Leopardi<\/span><\/p>\n

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: \u2018O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.\u2019 And God granted it.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

Inside every cynic is a disappointed idealist.<\/span>
\nGeorge Carlin<\/span><\/p>\n

People are so fucking stupid. No one reads anymore, no one goes out and watches and explores the society and culture they grew up in. People have five-second attention spans and the depth of a glass of water.<\/span>
\nDavid Bowie<\/span><\/p>\n

A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

Lack of judgment is precisely what is called stupidity, and there is absolutely no remedy for this defect. A dull and limited brain, lacking nothing except a suitable measure of intellect and precision in its concepts, can certainly be trained through study, even to the point of achieving erudition. However, since judgment is usually also lacking in such cases, one not infrequently encounters highly erudite men who, in the use of their knowledge, often reveal this incurable defect.<\/span>
\nImmanuel Kant<\/span><\/p>\n

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Beginning with the suppression of reason and truth, we must end with the most brutal and violent destruction of all that is human. This is the inevitable consequence of any system that seeks to control thought, to suppress dissent, to impose a single, unchallengeable doctrine.<\/span>
\nKarl Popper<\/span><\/p>\n

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.<\/span>
\nLudwig von Mises<\/span><\/p>\n

When a clown seats himself on the throne he does not become a king, the kingdom becomes a circus!<\/span>
\nTurkish proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

If we want to discover what is true, we must be completely free from all religions, all conditioning, all dogmas, all beliefs, and any authority that pushes us to conform; essentially, to be completely alone, and that is very difficult.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is so stupid, unbelievably stupid. He goes on throwing the responsibility on somebody else. Unless you stop this you will never become religious.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is the only sensible and satisfying answer to the problem of human existence. <\/span>
\nErich Fromm<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not anti-life as other religions are. I am absolutely for life, and life in its essence means love.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The successful revolutionary is a statesman; the unsuccessful one is a criminal.<\/span>
\nErich Fromm<\/span><\/p>\n

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Every miserable fool, who has nothing in the world to be proud of, clings to the last resource to be proud of, namely, the nation to which he belongs: in this way he comforts himself and is now full of gratitude and ready to defend tooth and nail all the defects and all the foolishness characteristic of that nation.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

To be crazy, some intelligence is needed.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

Essere intelligenti \u00e8 una maledizione diceva Schopenhauer. Infatti: capisci il gioco, osservi le menzogne, riconosci gli schemi. Ma devi comunque fingerti stupido per sopravvivere.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes.<\/span>
\nSalman Rushdie<\/span><\/p>\n

All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The first necessity is to realize the evils of the world.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.<\/span>
\nCarl Gustav Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.<\/span>
\nCarl Gustav Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Toleration is the best religion.<\/span>
\nVictor Hugo<\/span><\/p>\n

The Vatican has always been corrupted, first of all by stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

It is undesirable to believe a proposition to be true when there is no basis for supposing it to be actually true.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas \u2013 uncertainty, progress, change \u2013 into crimes.<\/span>
\nSalman Rushdie<\/span><\/p>\n

When it comes to money, everyone is of the same religion.<\/span>
\nFrancois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.<\/span>
\nFriedrich von Schiller<\/span><\/p>\n

God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown via Eric Fromm<\/span><\/p>\n

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

If a person has known only sex as life, he is stupid, he is an idiot.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

An anonymous man from the 16th century always used to say: \u201cThere are many important things in life, the first is eating, I don\u2019t know the others.\u201d<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

If somebody moves from poverty into spirituality, he has great intelligence. And if someone remains in richness and still does not move towards spirituality, he is just stupid and nothing else.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

The secret of happiness lies in facing the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.<\/span>
\nMahatma Gandhi<\/span><\/p>\n

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.<\/span>
\nThomas Jefferson<\/span><\/p>\n

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