Quotes - Heine (Silkeborg, 01, Denmark) Showing 1-21 of 21

#1

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93531 likes

#2

“Nobody steals books but your friends.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon

tags: books, friendship, inspirational, irony, stealing

285 likes

#3

“Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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#4

“I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”
― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber

tags: libraries, libraries-shadows, security, words

552 likes

#5

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war

7533 likes

#6

“God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.”
― Voltaire

16 likes

#7

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
― Heinrich Heine

tags: books, censorship

724 likes

#8

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: hell, life

2603 likes

#9

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#10

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”
― Philip K. Dick

665 likes

#12

“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”
― George Bernard Shaw

37 likes

#13

“The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.”
― George Bernard Shaw

23 likes

#14

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
― John Milton , Areopagitica

tags: argument, conscience, freedom, freedom-of-speech, liberty

327 likes

#15

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
― John Milton, Areopagitica

tags: books, censorship, ideas, intellect

1530 likes

#16

“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”
― John Milton, Areopagitica

tags: books

278 likes

#17

“His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead,
Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed;”
― John Keats, Hyperion A Fragment

9 likes

#18

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
― Henry Adams

888 likes

#19

“Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.”
― James Baldwin

94 likes

#20

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

tags: friendship, misattributed-a-a-milne

22184 likes

#21

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

4942 likes

#22

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

43886 likes

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