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"It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little"
Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher
"We have two ears and one tongue, so that we would listen more and talk less"
Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher
"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there, too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering, one wants something else"
Simone Weil, Philosopher
"Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
"Much learning does not teach understanding"
Heraclitus, Philosopher
"If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail"
Heraclitus, Philosopher
"Many people love in themselves what they hate in others"
E. F. Schumacher, Economist
"Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another"
Adam Smith, Economist
"Keep what you have; the known evil is best"
Plautus, Playwright
"Nothing recedes like progress"
E. E. Cummings, Poet
"It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them"
T. S. Eliot, Poet
"If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn"
John Dryden, Poet
"A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements"
Bo Bennett, Businessman
"Obey the principles without being bound by them"
Bruce Lee, Actor
"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick"
Bruce Lee, Actor
"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se"
Charles Eames, Designer
"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"Seek simplicity but distrust it"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding"
Epicurus, Philosopher
"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts"
James Joyce, Novelist
"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out"
Anton Chekhov, Dramatist
"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"Desire is the very essence of man"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill"
Pericles, Statesman
"The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others"
Aesop, Author
"We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance"
Aesop, Author
"The face is the soul of the body"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher
"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar"
Edward R. Murrow, Journalist
"We may not know the whole story in our lifetime"
Earl Warren, Judge
"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths"
Joseph Campbell, Author
"The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom"
Paramahansa Yogananda, Leader
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets"
Arthur Miller, Playwright
"This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened"
Ziggy Marley, Musician
"Ideas come through us, not from us"
Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist
"It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness"
Lisa Bonet, Actress
"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us"
Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman
"Money may kindle, but it cannot, by itself and for very long, burn"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed"
Joseph Addison, Writer
"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it"
Don Marquis, Journalist
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