“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.”
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty and truth.”
“There's a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship has sailed, and that only a fool would continue. The truth is; I've always been a fool.”
“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.”
“Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”
“We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.”
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
“The life of an individual is almost always tragic, but gone through in detail it has the characteristics of a comedy.”
“If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.”
“The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.”
“The truth is everyone is going to hurt you; you just have to find the ones worth suffering for.”
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
“My purpose, practically speaking: a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.”
“Without mistakes there would be no truth. If a man does not know what a thing is, at least he knows what it is not.”
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
“We must be engaged in the cultural battles—even when we grow weary—for truth is at stake in every arena, and eternal destinies hang in the balance.”
“Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.”
“There are only 3 things in the universe: the known-knowns, the known-unknowns, and the unknown-unknowns. What we know, what we don't know, and what we don't know we don't know.”
“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
“If true confessions are written with tears, then my tears would drown the world, as the fire in my soul would reduce it to ashes.”
“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.”
“For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
“I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.”
“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
“The only thing that prevents success in the future is skepticism in the present.”
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”
“In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke; that fact alone would invalidate any book.”
“It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up til now has consisted of—namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography.”
“Our thinking should have a vigorous fragrance, like a wheat field on a summer's night.”
“There is a false saying, 'Whoever cannot save himself, how can he save others?' But if I have the key to your chains, why should your and my lock be the same.”
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
“If we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.”
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
“Shower upon him every earthly blessing, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.”
“Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist, fairy tales tell children the dragons can be defeated.”
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía remembered that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”
“A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.”
“Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.”
“The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”
“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves; self-discipline with all of them came first.”
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
“Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.”
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
“What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”
“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”
“Society grows when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.”
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore.”
“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.”
“When we take people merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we help them become what they can be.”
“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
“All great literature is one of two stories: a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
“I don't want the best for you. I want the best for what wants the best for you, because you don't know what you want. I'm not on the side of you that's aiming towards your defeat. I'm on the side that's struggling towards the light. And that's the definition of love.”
“If you don't believe in God then you believe in nothing, and religious people will keep their gods, while you keep your nothing.”
“If you fulfill your obligations every day, you don't have to worry about the future.”
“Nihilism means that there is no meaning to anything, but the opposite is just as true, that there is meaning to everything.”
“No matter how big the lie, repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.”
“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
“He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work.”
“There are 3 types of leaders in this world: the leader that's loved; the leader that's hated; and the leader that people barely know he exists. When the work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to have it make some difference, that you have lived and lived well.”
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun. Yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
“The hero of my tale—whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will forever be beautiful—is truth.”
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled.”
“Just when everything seems lost; one has knocked on all doors which lead nowhere, and then, unwittingly, one pushes against the only one through which one would have searched in vain for a hundred years—and it opens.”
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of eternal youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess new eyes; to behold the universe through the eyes of another—of a hundred others—to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.”
“Unlike the earth, the sea is not separated from the sky; it radiates under the sun and seems to die with it every evening. And when the sun has vanished, the sea keeps longing for it, keeps preserving a bit of its luminous reminiscence in the face of the uniformly somber earth.”
“We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.”
“The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring—it was peace.”
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.”
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
“Propaganda system works because it recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies.”
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
“It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
“One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.”
“Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.”
“Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip.”
“Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.”
“If a thing is not diminished by being shared, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.”
“We manage to never really connect with the present moment and find fulfillment there, because we are continually hoping to become happy in the future. And the future never arrives.”
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
“The problem for us is not whether our desires are satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.”
“It's not about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.”
“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.”
“Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve. Nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of oneself.”
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive at where we started and know the place for the first time.”
“What might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. Footsteps echo in the memory. Down the passage which we did not take. Towards the door we never opened. Into the rose-garden.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
“Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
“Someone once told me the definition of hell: the last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing—the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
“Man is that being who invented the gas chambers in Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer on his lips.”
“Happiness is the simplest and most ordinary thing in life, not the lofty words like in novels, literature or poems.”
“We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.”
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, only in being superior to your former self.”
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
“What is poetry? To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”
“There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.”
“With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.”
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. And one man in his time plays many parts.”