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“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he
wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction.
Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age
eighteen.
Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
Albert Einstein
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of
religion.
Albert Einstein
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School
Board.
Mark Twain
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have
friends in both places.
Mark Twain
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a
fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Mark Twain
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
Mark Twain
When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to
pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in
a room.
Blaise Pascal
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it
in order to make ourselves happy.
Blaise Pascal
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are
beyond reason.
Blaise Pascal
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are
sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Blaise Pascal
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Blaise Pascal
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes
with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Bob Dylan
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of
people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
Bob Dylan
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been
too impressed.
Bob Dylan
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to
be.
Bob Dylan
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has
never overcome them.
Carl Jung
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be
alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Jung
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the
darknesses of other people.
Carl Jung
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not
know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he
knows what it is not.
Carl Jung
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured
who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and
everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in
order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to
perdition.
Carl Jung
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does
not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to
bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Jung
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between
two ways of looking at things.
George Bernard Shaw
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and
look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make
them.
George Bernard Shaw
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard Shaw
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run
away.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of
weakness, and dies by chance.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do
not understand anything that happens.
Jean-Paul Sartre
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being
eternal.
Jean-Paul Sartre
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
Jean-Paul Sartre
One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished:
the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other
than you life.
Jean-Paul Sartre
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an
atheist.
Jean-Paul Sartre
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries
out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul Sartre
We do not judge the people we love.
Jean-Paul Sartre
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what
we are - that is the fact.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Words are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul Sartre
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of
nothing.
Oscar Wilde
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his
punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is
absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar Wilde
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man
does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them;
rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century
that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper
basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no
use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to
listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you
pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of
optimism.
Oscar Wilde
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older
than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either
charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is
not.
Oscar Wilde
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a
mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious;
both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's
opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure
the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses
both.
Oscar Wilde
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are
only individuals.
Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world
its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the
critic.
Oscar Wilde
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is
unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction
means.
Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the
young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of
any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist
everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the
incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people
who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely
nothing.
Oscar Wilde
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one
wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel
no one else has a right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde