Matheus Minto > Matheus's Quotes

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for— the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?

—But it’s nicer here. . . .

So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?

—But we have to sleep sometime. . . .

Agreed. But nature set a limit on that—as it did on eating and drinking. And you’re over the limit. You’ve had more than enough of that. But not of working. There you’re still below your quota.

You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat. Do you have less respect for your own nature than the engraver does for engraving, the dancer for the dance, the miser for money or the social climber for status? When they’re really possessed by what they do, they’d rather stop eating and sleeping than give up practicing their arts.

Is helping others less valuable to you? Not worth your effort?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
― Hermann Hesse

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
― Hermann Hesse

“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“An unforeseen situation… An unexpected turn of events… In the face of those, you too will face your true self.”
― Makishima Shougo

“If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.”
― Jordan Peterson

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
― C.G. Jung

“We cannot change anything unless we accept it.”
― Carl Gustav Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”
― Edmund Burke

“It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”
― Edmund Burke

“If the king doesn’t move, then his subjects won’t follow.”
― Lelouch Vi Britannia

“You must think your pretty cool huh, just playing the critic and judging the world from the sidelines.”
― Kallen

“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”
― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are”
― Anaïs Nin

“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I’m looking for someone who…uh, someone I can trust. Someone strong. Someone at peace with themselves. Someone better than me. Someone who knows the…worst side of me and still loves me." Patrick Jane.”
― The Mentalist

“When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself”
― Earl Nightingale

“We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.”
― Earl Nightingale