Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful -- of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Wherever there are walls I shall inscribe this eternal accusation against Christianity upon them -- I can write in letters which make even the blind see. I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Christianity makes suffering contagious.
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
I can call 'Flappy Bird' is a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it.
Dong Nguyen
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.
Hitopadesa
You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.
Candace Bushnell
She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.
When the leader passes over all alike, not making a distinction, then the endeavors of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost.
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou
No one should form an acquaintance with one who has an evil character. A piece of coal, if it is hot burns, and if it's cold, blackens the hands.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Marcus Aurelius
One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
Herman Melville
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.
A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!
Tom Wilson
In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.
The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
Vaclav Hlavaty
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Edward Hoagland
Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
George Orwell
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
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