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  • #1
    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

  • #2
    Herman Melville
    “A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.”
    Herman Melville

  • #3
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #4
    Heraclitus
    “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
    Heraclitus

  • #5
    Epictetus
    “Only the educated are free.”
    Epictetus

  • #6
    George Washington
    “There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”
    George Washington

  • #7
    Anton Chekhov
    “One should not put a loaded rifle onto the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #8
    Albert Camus
    “There are more things to admire in men then to despise.”
    Albert Camus, The Plague

  • #9
    Franz Kafka
    “One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.”
    Franz Kafka, The Castle

  • #10
    Voltaire
    “All comes out even at the end of the day, and all comes out still more even when all the days are over.”
    Voltaire

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #13
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • #14
    André Gide
    “The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.”
    André Gide

  • #15
    Anton Chekhov
    “The world is wide and beautiful and there are many wonderful places in it.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #17
    Alfred North Whitehead
    “Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.”
    Alfred North Whitehead

  • #17
    Blaise Pascal
    “Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
    Blaise Pascal, Pensées

  • #19
    Steve  Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    Steve Martin

  • #19
    Ivan Turgenev
    “Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.”
    Ivan Turgenev

  • #20
    André Breton
    “My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
    André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

  • #21
    Umberto Eco
    “History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.”
    Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

  • #23
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

  • #23
    Demosthenes
    “What a man wishes he generally believes to be true”
    Demosthenes

  • #24
    Brian Greene
    “comparing infinities is a treacherous business”
    Brian Greene

  • #25
    George Bernard Shaw
    “It is the tame elephants who enjoy capturing the wild ones.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #26
    Horatius
    “Surely a Man may speak Truth with a smiling countenance.”
    Horace

  • #27
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.”
    Winston S. Churchill
    tags: man, pig

  • #28
    Gustave Flaubert
    “If there is on earth, and among all these things of nothing, a belief worthy of adoration, if there is anything holy, pure and sublime, anything answering that immoderate desire for the infinite and the vague that we call the soul, it is art.”
    Gustave Flaubert, Memoirs of a Madman
    tags: art

  • #29
    Umberto Eco
    “Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.”
    Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

  • #30
    Baruch Spinoza
    “Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.”
    Benedict de Spinoza



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