Paul's quotes

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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,275 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,316 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,626 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
8,207 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,486 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,698 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,769 people liked it

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: strength
5,420 people liked it

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
— Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
741 people liked it

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
— Albert Einstein

tags: compassion, einstein, nature, philosophy
538 people liked it

"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: philosophy
250 people liked it

"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy
152 people liked it

"An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts."
— Albert Camus

tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars
136 people liked it

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: music
598 people liked it

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
— Albert Einstein

tags: music
567 people liked it

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: dance, dancing, music
361 people liked it

"Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
— Leonard Bernstein

tags: music
236 people liked it

"I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me."
— Bob Dylan

tags: chaos, dylan, music
195 people liked it

"Music is the universal language of mankind."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: music, poetry
126 people liked it

"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: music, sinister
144 people liked it

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
32 people liked it

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown"
— H.P. Lovecraft

68 people liked it