Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.
I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.
Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.
Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.
In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.
Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.
Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.
Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?
I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.
Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music!
Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.
Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human.
Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.
The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.
Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.
Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful
I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.
If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent.
I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.
The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal.
Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?