Quotes
Sayings or interesting quotes that I encountered and with which I can identify myself...
Public Domain / in my own words:
- "Make not your dreams true but dream your truth, because dreams constitute the truth"
- "The essence of things is not in their past, in their being or in their relations, but in the view each of us has on them: That is exactly why people think that they are talking about something, and that they do know what really is the case"
- "Make Love AND War, because life is a balance of life"
- "Finding the meaning of life is not the meaning of life"
- "Look life into the eyes or admit that you're dead... but never forget that to live is to love, create, shape, and be in meaning... it's blossoming during a finite summertime that will end in fall - and this makes life and meaning, or in other words: finiteness; synonymous -..."
- "It may be true that it's better to be a Socrates dissatisfied, than a pig satisfied, but what if one is a dissatisfied pig ?"
Named authors:
Nietzsche
- (some) "scholars knit socks for the spirit"
Machiavelli
- "...man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation"
Aldous Huxley
- "Christians and moralists and cultured aesthetes, and bright young scientists and Smilesian business men - all poor little human frogs trying to blow themselves up into bulls of pure spirituality, pure idealism, pure efficiency, pure conscious intelligence, and just going pop, ceasing to be anything but the fragments of a little frog..."
Seth Godin
- "No one is as smart as all of us"
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