Life, truth and wisdom, a collection of quotes and short thoughts on the meaning of the real essence of life, or better about the real sense and goal we can create.
Life is nothing but a cock and bull story, and one of the best of its kind.
Carl William Brown
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is, in fact, a struggle. On this point pessimists and optimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty is beautiful, but rare; goodness is often apt to be weak, folly to be arrogant, and wickedness to prevail; fools in the places of honor and the best aloof; and mankind, as a whole, unhappy.
Henry James
A noble heart will refuse happiness built on misfortune of others.
Saadi
The literal meaning of life is wahtever you are doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
Albert Camus
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
Ezra Pound
The tragedy of life is that it gives us wisdom only when it has stolen youth
Will Durant
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.
George Bernard Shaw
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
None of the mortals will ever spend their life completely free from pain, each one always pays his price for life.
Aeschylus
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Humans are creatures, who spent their lives trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd.
Albert Camus
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift
It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.
Aldous Huxley
Without goals, the very concept of intelligence is meaningless.
Steven Pinker
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The human species is mainly made up of people who do nothing but fill the sewers and pollute the environment in which they live, an endless mass of donkeys who unfortunately believe themselves to be horses and since they even believe to have a religious spirituality, they are also quite convinced to gain eternal life.
Carl William Brown
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be lived.
Søren Kierkegaard
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
Hermann Hesse
Although I had no regrets, I told myself sadly that growing up was not the painless process one expected it to be.
Maya Angelou
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
Albert Einstein
The painful sarcastic bitter parable of life. At the beginning you are born alone and in the end you will die alone, but in the middle you are going to meet an incredible number of assholes!
Carl William Brown
You are wealthy when you can freely decide what to do with your time.
Vala Afshar
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Montaigne
Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward.
Oscar Wilde
The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.
Isaac Asimov
When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
Walter Lippmann
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell
We think too much and feel too little.
Charlie Chaplin
Day by day, what you think and what you do is who you become.
Eraclitus
You will always have problems. Learn to enjoy life while solving them.
Anonymous
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think.
Frida Khalo
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes
People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
Soren kierkegaard
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy.
Oscar Wilde
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
Friedrich Schiller
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
Euripides
When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
Walter Lippmann
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci
The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.
Lester Bangs
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
T.S. Eliot
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
Orson Wells
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin
The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
Paracelsus
One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.
Sthendal
A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
Miguel De Cervantes
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. Ezra Pound
Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.
John Florio
St. Michael’s Shield of Truth Prayer. St. Michael, you are our defender and safeguard against evil. Place your Shield of Truth over us and defend us in the battle which Satan wages against truth. Help us to seethe righteous path of Holy Love.Clarify our choices between good and evil by placing us always behind your Shield of Truth.
Amen.
The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.
William Shakespeare
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Never underestimate the enemy, above all if he is a stupid one.
Carl William Brown
To be continued …
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