Daniel Louzada > Daniel's Quotes

“I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. they say it closely resembles death.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris

“Escrito está: "Era no início o Verbo!"
Começo apenas, e já me exacerbo!
Como hei de ao verbo dar tão alto apreço?
De outra interpretação careço;
Se o espírito me deixa esclarecido,
Escrito está: No início era o Sentido!
Pesa a linha inicial com calma plena,
Não se apressure a tua pena!
É o sentido então, que tudo opera e cria?
Deverá opor! No início era a energia!
Mas, já, enquanto assim o retifico,
Diz-me algo que tampouco nisso fico.
Do espírito me vale a direção
E escrevo em paz: Era no início a Ação!”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Always Being Right

“Pessoas comuns, ao contrário, têm profundo respeito por especialistas de qualquer tipo. Elas não sabem que aqueles que fazem de um assunto sua profissão não amam o assunto, mas os seus ganhos.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Die Kunst, Recht Zu Behalten

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“O intelecto não é uma luz que arde sem óleo, mas é alimentado pela vontade e pelas paixões.”
― Francis Bacon, Novum organum scientiarum Volume 1

“Therefore I beg you, reader, not to rejoice too greatly if you have read much, but if you have understood much. Nor that you have understood much, but that you have been able to retain it. Otherwise it is of little profit either to read or to understand.”
― Hugh of Saint Victor, The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts

“Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.”
― St. Augustin

“The measure of love is to love without measure.”
― Augustine of Hippo

“In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.”
― St. Augustine

“The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“— Você está atormentado por uma coisa que aconteceu quando você tinha doze anos?
— Essas são as coisas que realmente nos atormentam. As outras são apenas problemas.”
― Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, Alone in the Crowd

“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle