100 marvellous great quotes and aphorisms by great and famous authors and writers edited for the World of English blog by Carl William Brown, a sincere literary avenger. (Find out more about him on Amazon).

Audi doctrinam, si vis vitare ruinam: cum sine doctrina nil proficiat medicina.
Proverbium mediaevale

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem he must solve.
Erich Fromm

When muslims become Osho’s followers I will trust them a little bit more.
Carl William Brown

Sobriety distinguishes, discriminates, and says no. Intoxication expands, unites, and says yes.
William James

We’ll meet again in the gardens of memory, in the palace of dreams.
Lewis Caroll

The ethics of knowledge and social justice do not exist; instead, there is the use of force, abuse of power, and institutionalized fraud to safeguard privilege, injustice, and the spread of stupidity.
Carl William Brown

The man who cannot create wants to destroy.
Erich Fromm

Stupid people ask about God, the intelligent person asks about death. The people who go on asking about God never find God, and the person who asks about death is bound to find God
Osho

We survive by what we receive, but we live by what we give.
Carl Gustav Jung

Syncretinism is santanic!
Carl William Brown

What the herd hates most is a person who thinks differently.
Arthur Shopenhauer

Coniunctio or Coincidentia Oppositorum: if everything makes sense, then nothing makes sense; that’s why we live in a painful and absurd world.
Carl William Brown

I turn cruel when I am empty, If I cannot be loved, I must be feared.
Niccolò Machiavelli

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
Adam Smith

Literature is a defence against the insults of life.
Cesare Pavese

The result of every life is completely erroneous, so why the bothering of calculation, or of having faith.
Carl William Brown

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Margaret Mead

To be happy you must eliminate two things: The fear of a bad future and The memory of a bad past.
Seneca

From the beginning till the end the entire life is a whole process of learning, of how useless it all has been.
Carl William Brown

What are you afraid of losing, when nothing in the world actually belongs to you?
Marcus Aurelius

The human soul is “symphonic”; music is part of the profound nature.
Hildegard of Bingen

Never play fair in a game where others cheat.
Niccolò Machiavelli

Too many pacifists around, we need a good war here too, like in the good old days, the only hygiene for a world too full of idiots.
Carl William Brown

Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.
Hildegard von Bingen

Humor is the weapon of the wise for it disarms the arrogant.
Aristophanes

Silence was fundamental for Osho, also because most of the time, speaking is useless, given the ordinary human capacity for understanding.
Carl William Brown

The soul is the greening life force of the flesh, for the body grows and prospers through her, just as the earth becomes fruitful when it is moistened. The soul humidifies the body so it does not dry out, just like the rain which soaks into the earth.
Hildegard von Bingen

Highly intelligent people cannot be evil, because evil requires stupidity and a limited mind.
J.P. Sartre

I wouldn’t like to die alone; it would be better to be in good company, but whose one? Unfortunately, choices have always been my weakness.
Carl William Brown

Se viviamo, è per camminare sulla testa dei Re.
William Shakespeare

We cannot live in a world interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.
Hildegard von Bingen

Never let the future disturb you. you will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason that arm you today, against the present.
Marcus Aurelius

In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In pursuit of the Tao, every day something is dropped.
Tao Te Ching

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Seneca

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn’t there, and finding it.
Oscar Wilde

Peace is defined not merely by the absence of war, but as a proactive state characterized by the presence of justice, equity, understanding, and human rights.
Martin Luther King Via Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza

In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.”
Aldous Huxley

Stupid matter uses even its most brilliant scientific minds to spread its own harmful imbecility.
Carl William Brown

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
Moliere

A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.
Bertrand Russell

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.
Terence McKenna

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
Confucius

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
Jorge Luis Borges

In my mother’s brain, the disease had devastated the garden of memory, but perhaps not yet the palace of dreams. Then, however, death came, and everything collapsed.
Carl William Brown

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
Voltaire

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.
Aldous Huxley

Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.
Dante

You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
Karl Popper

Reason is the root through which the resonant word blossoms.
Hildegard of Bingen

Your emotions are servants, not masters. Keep them in line.
Marcus Aurelius

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs.
Arthur Schopenhauer

We are all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
Rudyard Kipling

Galileo said that mathematics is the language in which the book of nature is written, ignoring the fact that nature has no need of books, nor of mathematics, nor of Galileo.
Carl William Brown

Celui qui serait sage n’aurait pas de fou; celui qui a un fou n’est pas sage; s’il n’est pas sage, il est fou; et peut-être, fût-il roi, le fou de son fou.
Denis Diderot

What sickens me about left-wing people, especially the intellectuals, is their utter ignorance of the way things actually happen.
George Orwell

L’histoire ne vous fournit que des exemples de paix violées, de guerres injustes et cruelles, des champs dévastés de villes réduites en cendres.
Diderot Encyclopédie, article (Paix)

Solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon

If you are not a master of yourself, then trying to be a master of others is just a substitute to befool yourself, to deceive yourself, and that is what the stupidity consists of.
Osho

There is no pain that the passage of time does not diminish or students. (Nullus pain est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat).
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The most stupid thinks that he is very intelligent. Hence you go on giving compliments to each other. All those compliments are lies – and everybody is ready to believe.
Osho

Desiring life, in any case, and to the full extent of this desire, is nothing other than desiring unhappiness; desiring to live is as much as desiring to be unhappy.
Giacomo Leopardi

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.
Voltaire

Inside every cynic is a disappointed idealist.
George Carlin

People are so fucking stupid. No one reads anymore, no one goes out and watches and explores the society and culture they grew up in. People have five-second attention spans and the depth of a glass of water.
David Bowie

A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.
Osho

Lack of judgment is precisely what is called stupidity, and there is absolutely no remedy for this defect. A dull and limited brain, lacking nothing except a suitable measure of intellect and precision in its concepts, can certainly be trained through study, even to the point of achieving erudition. However, since judgment is usually also lacking in such cases, one not infrequently encounters highly erudite men who, in the use of their knowledge, often reveal this incurable defect.
Immanuel Kant

Beginning with the suppression of reason and truth, we must end with the most brutal and violent destruction of all that is human. This is the inevitable consequence of any system that seeks to control thought, to suppress dissent, to impose a single, unchallengeable doctrine.
Karl Popper

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
Ludwig von Mises

When a clown seats himself on the throne he does not become a king, the kingdom becomes a circus!
Turkish proverb

If we want to discover what is true, we must be completely free from all religions, all conditioning, all dogmas, all beliefs, and any authority that pushes us to conform; essentially, to be completely alone, and that is very difficult.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Man is so stupid, unbelievably stupid. He goes on throwing the responsibility on somebody else. Unless you stop this you will never become religious.
Osho

Love is the only sensible and satisfying answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm

I am not anti-life as other religions are. I am absolutely for life, and life in its essence means love.
Osho

All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

The successful revolutionary is a statesman; the unsuccessful one is a criminal.
Erich Fromm

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
Osho

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

Every miserable fool, who has nothing in the world to be proud of, clings to the last resource to be proud of, namely, the nation to which he belongs: in this way he comforts himself and is now full of gratitude and ready to defend tooth and nail all the defects and all the foolishness characteristic of that nation.
Arthur Schopenhauer

To be crazy, some intelligence is needed.
Osho

Essere intelligenti è una maledizione diceva Schopenhauer. Infatti: capisci il gioco, osservi le menzogne, riconosci gli schemi. Ma devi comunque fingerti stupido per sopravvivere.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes.
Salman Rushdie

All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

The first necessity is to realize the evils of the world.
Bertrand Russell

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Carl Gustav Jung

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Carl Gustav Jung

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Toleration is the best religion.
Victor Hugo

The Vatican has always been corrupted, first of all by stupidity.
Carl William Brown

It is undesirable to believe a proposition to be true when there is no basis for supposing it to be actually true.
Bertrand Russell

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
George Bernard Shaw

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes.
Salman Rushdie

When it comes to money, everyone is of the same religion.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller

God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly.
Osho

Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.
Carl William Brown via Eric Fromm

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw

If a person has known only sex as life, he is stupid, he is an idiot.
Osho

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

An anonymous man from the 16th century always used to say: “There are many important things in life, the first is eating, I don’t know the others.”
Carl William Brown

If somebody moves from poverty into spirituality, he has great intelligence. And if someone remains in richness and still does not move towards spirituality, he is just stupid and nothing else.
Osho

The secret of happiness lies in facing the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
Bertrand Russell

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson

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100 gorgeous quotes and aphorisms by great and famous authors and writers edited for the World of English blog by Carl William Brown, a sincere literary avenger. (Find out more about him on Amazon).

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Gustav Jung

Tutte le religioni. Tutto questo canto. Un solo canto. La pace sia con voi.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God’s decree.
Osho

The act of disobedience, as an act of freedom, is the beginning of reason.
Erich Fromm

Man is quite insane. He wouldn’t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
Michel de Montaigne

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect … Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Carl Gustav Jung

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.
Osho

The ancestors. The dead. It is not a mere metaphor, an encrypted message to indicate the unconscious or something like that. When he speaks of the dead, Jung means the dead. And they are present in the images, they continue to live.
Sonu Shamdasani

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
Carl Gustav Jung

There is the music of Heaven in all things.
Hildegard von Bingen

What shall I say, O Muslims? I do not know myself; I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Zoroastrian, nor Muslim.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

An idiot with a plan can beat a genius without a plan.
Warren Buffett

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
Oscar Wilde

The utter stupidity of humanity and its leaders is also demonstrated by the fact that thousands of atomic bombs have been built without intending to use them; perhaps they are considered a long-term investment.
Carl William Brown

Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

Frankly, if a fateful and providential disaster were to wipe out two-thirds of the world’s population, I couldn’t help but be happy. I suffer more when I see a leaf fall from a tree.
Carl William Brown

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Gustav Jung

The development and growth of tools connected to or managed by artificial intelligence proceeds proportionally with the general imbecility of the world population.
Carl William Brown

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.
Cicero

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. … The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Gustav Jung

As artificial intelligence develops, natural stupidity also increases indiscriminately.
Carl William Brown

All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.
Osho

The cyclical and repetitive essence of matter, while astonishing on the one hand, is also monotonous and boring, comical and pathetic on the other.
Carl William Brown

Hildegard, the human soul is ‘symphonic’; music is part of the profound nature.
Hildegard von Bingen

Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, but everything is transformed, and in the process, a huge pain in the ass is created.
Carl William Brown

Socialism may begin with the best of intentions, but it always ends with the Gestapo.
Winston Churchill

Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.
Osho

Ai bambini bisogna insegnare a pensare, non cosa pensare.
Margaret Mead

I dropped out of school at age 15 with virtually no money and no education. If I could make big money in the stock market, think about how well you can do. There is no reason you shouldn’t be able to achieve far more than I have.
Mark Minervini

Where the environment is stupid, or prejudiced, or cruel, it is a mark of merit to oppose it.
Bertrand Russell

A man is born to work, to suffer and to fight; he who doesn’t, must perish.
Nikola Tesla

We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.
David Clark

Individual imbecility, integrating and adapting to universal stupidity, can generate a certain unconscious and fleeting satisfaction.
Carl William Brown

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Denis Diderot

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.
Anne Frank

The historian, the futurist, the surrealist, and the nihilist move in environments that do not exist, following the trail of death and stupidity.
Carl William Brown

Mathematics is just a language, and as such, it’s conventional, arbitrary, and capable of expressing a lot of bullshit.
Carl William Brown

But the devil was so tired that he left everything to men, who knew how to do things better than he did.
Leonardo Sciascia

Social life is a distraction, real intelligence thrives in isolation.
Nikola Tesla

War in Iran, China offers the Islamic regime the following sacred texts: The Art of War (Sun Tzu), Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu), The Analects (Confucius), the Bible (Various Authors), all accompanied by a huge load of pork.
Carl William Brown

C’è la musica del Cielo in tutte le cose.
Ildegarda di Bingen

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity explains so much.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
Albert Einstein

I have great faith in fools, – self-confidence my friends will call it.
Edgar Allan Poe

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a person’s estate, but in their souls.
Antisthenes

If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
Francois Rabelais

Civilized man has traded a portion of his chance for happiness for a measure of security.
Sigmund Freud

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake

What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

The father of modern stress research, Hans Seyle, claims that stress doesn’t depend so much on what happens, but on how we interpret it. That may be true, but I wish him every possible misfortune, and then we’ll see.
Carl William Brown

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf

You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.
Jim Otto

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
Gene Tunney

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah Arendt

I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
Erma Bombeck

Reason is the root, through which the resonant word flourishes.
Hildegard von Bingen

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech.
Hildegard von Bingen

Syncretinism is the most updated keyword of the modern catholic church.
Carl William Brown

A nation that displays the shitty faces of poor religious idiots on the walls of its cities must by strict logic necessarily be destroyed, never mind the international law of stupidity.
Carl William Brown

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Those who lack a certain amount of free time are cut off from many of the best things.
Bertrand Russell

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
Anacharsis

If you don’t become aware of the three idiots within you, you will never become a sage. It is by overcoming the three idiots that one truly becomes wise.
Osho

Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

Religions are the cradles of despotism.
Marquis De Sade

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Dean William R. Inge

The common man with extraordinary power represents the greatest danger to humanity, not the demon or the sadist.
Erich Fromm

I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day…
Lord Byron

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Gustav Jung

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won’t be offended.
Morgan Freeman

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
Aldous Huxley

Religion is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx

Religion: a daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce

A mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table.
Aristotle

A person who lives in a sort of sleep can never be intelligent – and awareness is the purest flame of intelligence.
Osho

El Estado es una banda de ladrones, compuesta por los individuos más inmorales, codiciosos y sin escrúpulos de cada sociedad.
Murray Rothbard

The beautiful is nothing but the terrible at its beginning (Denn das Schöne ist nichts / als des Schrecklichen Anfang.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
Thomas Eliot

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
Aristophanes

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Seneca

I have found God, but he is insufficient.
Henry Miller

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards.
Mark Twain

El Estado es peor que una mafia. Es más grande, más criminal y además tiene escuelas. Una mafia normal te roba y te deja en paz.
Miguel Anxo Bastos

Religion is man’s twisted thinking, out of which temples are erected to realize it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Unless a person is stupid he cannot be a politician. It is not that the politicians are stupid – in fact, only stupid people are attracted towards politics.
Osho

Human biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
Erich Fromm

The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Gustav Jung

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
Thomas Jefferson

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha

Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus

God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.
Osho

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Marcus T. Cicero

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop

The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
Marcus Aurelius

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl Gustav Jung

The world is full of tragic or comic, heroic or bizarre or surprising things, and those who fail to engage with the spectacle it offers miss one of life’s privileges.
Bertrand Russell

The only truly rich are those who desire no more than they already possess.
Erich Fromm

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Stultorum infinitus est numerus. Some quotes and aphorisms about stupidity, with links to other posts of quotes and articles about stupidity and power.

A great number of people talk too much, but pragmatically act too little, and if they try, they can only do stupid and dangerous things. Any reference to Italian politicians are quite imaginary and clearly unreal.
Carl William Brown

If our politicians, legislators, public administrators, legal judges, lawyers, public and private managers, and all the different members of the social, justice, political, economic, scientific, medical and educational organizations were just ordinary intelligent people, I don’t mean geniuses or brilliant thinkers, but only a little bit better than the average human being, how can it be that our world is so stupid, cruel, violent, dirty, unfair, wrongful, painful, polluted, or to put it in simple words, the toilet of the universe, for the vast majority of its population, if not for all its inhabitants at large.
Carl William Brown

People are so fucking stupid. No one reads anymore, no one goes out and watches and explores the society and culture they grew up in. People have five-second attention spans and the depth of a glass of water.
David Bowie

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller

Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.
Carl William Brown via Eric Fromm

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.
Confucius

Money management is the only strategy to survive in this crazy, stupid and doped financial world market.
Carl William Brown

Humble, stupid and rich people usually vote for excellent and marvellous stupid politicians, so that they can get more satisfaction.
Carl William Brown

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us.
George Bernard Shaw

Being a scholar of stupidity, how might I avoid to thank a lot of people for their existence.
Carl William Brown

It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
Mick Jagger

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
Anacharsis

Whoever can’t recognise stupidity at a glance is stupid, and a stupid can’t fight stupidity.
Carl William Brown

Stupidity is the only art that permanently truly exists.
Carl William Brown

Our little planet earth is nothing else but an intergalactic school of stupidity. Anyway if you want to choose the best University for a master or a PhD come to Italy.
Carl William Brown

I don’t know if the human race is human, but certainly it’s stupid.
Carl William Brown

The three enemies of human happiness are pain, stupidity and boredom.
Carl William Brown

The human race is not wicked, but it is stupid, and that’s even worse! Dire straits!
Carl William Brown

How can it be that when I wake up in the morning I often think of my first ideal adolescent impossible love and I still remember vividly that gentle little blonde girl of thirty five years ago? Here is once again an evident proof of the existence of stupidity.
Carl William Brown

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane.
Carl William Brown

Too much bad writing and too many banal deeds in struggle with too few creative thoughts and too few good actions. By the way, what’s the difference between fair and foul.
Carl William Brown

Stupidity is everywhere, so it is extremely difficult to destroy it. That’s why first of all we must observe and find out more, point it out and denounce it.
Carl William Brown

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
Albert Camus

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein

I decided to struggle against stupidity to watch ignorance directly into the eyes.
Carl William Brown

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AI guide to web resources, an article that illustrates the most important AI resources available in Internet and all their applications, with updated links, search-engines and timeline.

Artificial intelligence is an extremely complex science made up of machine learning, neural networks, cognitive computing, and so much more. The discussion surrounding AI dates beyond this century. It extends even further back than when Alan Turing asked the question, “What if machines could think?” Therefore here we provide a quick guide to the many realities that populate the great Internet. Note that many of the sites listed offer free services and generally only after registration, obviously the professional ones need to be paid.

Artificial Intelligence or AI is the technology behind the fourth industrial revolution that has brought great changes all around the world. It is usually defined as the study of intelligent systems that could execute tasks and activities that would require human level intelligence. Similar to the past three industrial revolutions, AI is leaving an incredible impact on productivity.

What is the process of artificial intelligence (AI)? Artificial intelligence (AI) is a term used to describe human-made technology that iteratively applies massive amounts of data. This enables it to forecast outcomes, producing linguistic or mathematical outputs in response to an input from the AI user. It builds a model by looking for patterns in a vast collection of data, known as training data. After that, it evaluates how accurate the model is by posing a query to which it already has the answer. Test data is the term used to describe the data produced by the AI. It learns and iterates on the model over time as well as with additional inputs and test data.

How does artificial intelligence (AI) work? Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to human-produced technology that systematically applies large sets of data to an iterative model. This allows it to predict results, generating mathematical or linguistic outputs in response to an input by the user of the AI. It finds patterns in a massive set of data, referred to as training data, to create a model. It then tests its model by asking a question it already knows the answer to, and analyzing how accurate its answer is. The data generated by the AI is referred to as test data. Over time and with more inputs and test data, it learns and iterates on the model.

AI DATABASE AND GENERAL RESOURCES

https://www.toolify.ai/ Toolify is the largest AI tools directory & GPT Store Apps. Over 22200+ AI Websites and AI Tools. Toolify stands as the largest AI tools marketplace, hosting over 9,900 tools across 233 categories as of February 2024. The platform serves as a discovery engine for AI capabilities, from text generation to image creation. Text & Writing: AI writers, grammar checkers, and translation tools. Image & Video: Generators like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney, plus editing suites. Voice AI: Text-to-speech and voice cloning technologies. Business Tools: Marketing, SEO, and customer service solutions. Creative Suite: 3D modeling, graphic design, and interior design tools. Sponsored by Bright Data.

https://www.zerodivision.it/ Zerodivision is an Italian software consulting and development company founded in 2008. It serves as a technology partner for businesses, offering solutions and services ranging from artificial intelligence (AI) to cloud computing, cybersecurity, and web/mobile development. Key areas of expertise include: Business services: AI, cloud migrations, legacy system modernization, and blockchain. Free tools: The website offers a range of free, public tools, including an IBAN validator, calculators, a webcam/microphone test, and comparison guides for AI.

https://yupp.ai/ is an online platform that allows users to access and compare multiple premium AI models – such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok – side-by-side in one place. It aims to help users find the best answers while rewarding them for providing feedback that improves AI models. Yupp prioritizes our users’ safety online. We are aware of sites that contain misinformation and scam vectors, and actively work to remove them. Please only interact with links from yupp.ai and our official channels: Discord, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, and Reddit. So Yupp makes it fun and easy to discover, compare, and use the latest AI tools while helping shape the future of artificial intelligence.

https://aistudio.google.com/ Google AI Studio is Google’s platform for accessing and developing with the Gemini API. A key feature is AI Studio Live (aistudio.google.com/live), which enables real-time interaction with Gemini AI through screen sharing and voice capabilities. The platform offers pay-as-you-go pricing at $2.50 per hour, though some users have noted the pricing display could be clearer to avoid confusion with the projected monthly benefits. As of early 2026, while screen sharing capabilities were previously available, recent updates appear to have modified the interface, with some users reporting changes to the screen sharing functionality

https://grok.com/ Grok is a free AI assistant designed by xAI to maximize truth and objectivity. Grok offers real-time search, image generation, trend analysis, and more. If you use X.com, you can find Grok inside it.

https://storm.genie.stanford.edu/ Stanford STORM Research Project. STORM is a writing system that uses large language models to generate Wikipedia-like articles from scratch. It focuses on the pre-writing stage by discovering diverse perspectives, simulating conversations, and curating an outline. We propose STORM, a writing system for the Synthesis of Topic Outlines through Retrieval and Multi-perspective Question Asking. STORM models the pre-writing stage by discovering diverse perspectives in researching the given topic, simulating conversations where writers carrying different perspectives pose questions to a topic expert grounded on trusted Internet sources, curating the collected information to create an outline.

https://theresanaiforthat.com There’s An AI For That | AI Database. Comprehensive database of AIs available for every task. Find the best AI for your task. There is a timeline that is updated every month with new applications available, an alphabetical index, and there is also a community for exchanging information.

https://www.futuretools.io/ FutureTools Collects & Organizes All The Best AI Tools So YOU Too Can Become Superhuman! Find The Exact AI Tool For Your Needs. AI Detection Aggregators Avatar Chat Copywriting Finance For Fun Gaming Generative Art Generative Code Generative Video Image Improvement Image Scanning Inspiration Marketing Motion Capture Music Podcasting.

https://www.futurepedia.io/ Futurpedia. The largest ai tools directory, updated daily. Browse 700+ AI tools in 40+ categories like copywriting, image generation and video editing. Search and filter the tools by categories, pricing and features.

https://logicballs.com/ Logicballs is a user-friendly AI-powered content generation tool that simplifies and streamlines the process of creating high-quality content. Boost Your Copywriting Skills with Free Logicballs Tools looks like the top match. Discover the best FREE tools for writing awesome copies that will captivate your audience and boost your online presence. Our comprehensive list of tools includes everything you need to create compelling content that converts. Start writing like a pro today!

https://letsview.com/ai-tools  LetsView AI directory is a collection of artificial intelligence tools to make your life and work easier. The directory includes an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI, a writing assistant, and a cloud-based spelling and grammar checker. Other AI tools listed in the directory include code completion, a cloud-based presentation platform, graphic, audio and video softwares.

https://aiqom.ai The World’s First AI Nation. A platform and a digital network of citizens who can easily learn, create & monetize AI

https://andisearch.com Andi is search for the next generation using generative AI. Instead of just links, Andi gives you answers – like chatting with a smart friend and can also create a summary of the website you are going to visit. It’s a smart search assistant. The more detailed your question, the better it can help. It’s an AI search engine that gives you links, information and answers to your questions. It is free and anonymous to use.

https://www.perplexity.ai  Perlexity Open Search. Perplexity AI unlocks the power of knowledge with information discovery and sharing. It is an answer engine that aims to deliver accurate answers to questions using large language models. The new AI-powered chat tool that works like a powerful search engine and can show you the source of your search.

https://ai.google  Make better, more inclusive AI with the Monk Skin Tone Scale–a free development tool from Google Responsible AI. Demonstration of quantum supremacy using the Sycamore processor We developed a new 54-qubit processor, named “Sycamore”, that is comprised of fast, high-fidelity quantum logic gates , in order to perform the benchmark testing.

https://translate.google.com  Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, and an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications.

https://www.bing.com/translator Microsoft Translator is a multilingual machine translation cloud service provided by Microsoft. Microsoft Translator is a part of Microsoft Cognitive Services and integrated across multiple consumer, developer, and enterprise products; including Bing, Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Lync, Yammer, Skype Translator, Visual Studio, and Microsoft Translator apps for Windows, Windows Phone, iPhone and Apple Watch, and Android phone and Android Wear.

https://www.english-culture.com/web-software-guide/ Web software guide links. This page contains a complete collection of links to the most useful software online, both old, new and future, with many AI applications and tools for every purpose, use and enjoyment.

https://ahrefs.com/free-seo   Free Keywords generator and other SEO tools. Keywords are essential for both searches and classifications of artificial intelligence, as well as for marketing, finance, politics, sociology and economics. They are also the basis of effective communication.

https://keywordtool.io   Find Great Keywords Using Google Autocomplete.

AI TEXTS CHATS SOFTWARE BOOKS AND SERVICES

https://openai.com  OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

https://chat.openai.com/chat  ChatGPT is an AI-powered language model developed by OpenAI, capable of generating human-like text based on context and past conversations. But of course not only that, it can generate software code, and much more, such as create texts, art, music, and even video. It has been acquired by Microsoft, and integrated in Bing, Excel and Teams Premium. Here you can read the best prompts for ChatGPT in order to get the most out of it.

https://www.deepseek.com/ DeepSeek emerged as a significant AI challenger in January 2025 when its R1 model sparked global attention. Founded in May 2023 by Liang Wenfeng in Hangzhou, China, the company operates under High-Flyer Capital Management. The platform offers two key models: DeepSeek-V3, a general-purpose AI with 671 billion parameters, and DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning model that rivals OpenAI’s o1 at significantly lower costs. DeepSeek’s mobile app topped both Apple’s App Store and Google Play Store charts in early 2025, triggering a tech stock selloff that saw Nvidia lose $600 billion in market value.

https://notebooklm.google/ Notebook LM automates tasks that would normally take hours of manual labor, such as text summarization and code generation, thus increasing productivity. With integration with Google Cloud, multiple users can work simultaneously on shared projects, improving real-time collaboration. It makes it easy to summarize complex studies and identify connections between different sources, making research more efficient. Notebook LM can create audio summaries of uploaded content, further improving information management efficiency.

https://poe.com/ Fast, helpful AI chat. Poe – Fast AI Chat is an amazing app that offers a wide range of features and functions to assist users with various tasks and activities. It has impressive information retrieval capabilities, language translation, personalized recommendations, entertainment options, and accessibility features. Highly recommend! Sign in. Use email. or. Continue with Google. Continue with Apple. Download Poe to try the newest and most powerful AIs on the market. We’ve also launched a web interface! Visit poe.com on your desktop or laptop computer and your chat messages will sync with your iPhone or iPad. Now you can continue your conversations across all your devices.

https://finchat.io/ The Complete AI Powered Stock Research Platform. Easily track what matters to you. Our intuitive platform gives you the flexibility to customize your experience and auto-save your research. Work faster than ever. Save time researching your next great investment idea with the comprehensive investment research platform for global equities.

https://nat.dev/ OpenPlayground is a tool created by OpenAI that allows users to interact with AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a predictive language tool that can respond to any prompt and write nearly anything. OpenPlayground is available through an account on the website. Additionally, OpenAI offers an API platform for accessing new AI models developed by them. There are also tutorials available on YouTube that show how to use OpenPlayground for beginners. Overall, OpenPlayground provides a powerful artificial intelligence tool that makes many everyday tasks easier. This web-based tool allows users to experiment with multiple language models, including GPT models. It is programmed to take what the user types and predict what should come next, making it a predictive writing tool. Users can ask the AI questions, start a conversation, write short stories, and discover AI use cases. The website also features a “Compare” feature that allows users to compare different language models. Overall, OpenPlayground enables users to easily and quickly build and test predictive language models.

https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts The ChatGPT model is a large language model trained by OpenAI that is capable of generating human-like text. By providing it with a prompt, it can generate responses that continue the conversation or expand on the given prompt. In this repository, you will find a variety of prompts that can be used with ChatGPT.

https://www.longshot.ai  LongShot FactGPT helps you create fresh and relevant user-sourced content with citations. It’s like ChatGPT but with personalized, real-time, fact-checked content. (You have to register and subscribe a payment plan to obtain the service.)

https://quillbot.com  Paraphrasing Tool – QuillBot AI AI-powered paraphrasing tool helps students and professionals rewrite, edit, and change the tone of their text to improve clarity and comprehension. Another useful service is the possibility to summarize texts.

https://books.google.com/talktobooks  Not a traditional search, it is a creativity tool to explore ideas and discover books by getting quotes that respond to your queries.

https://instatext.io  InstaText is a writing and editing tool that helps you rewrite your text to make it more readable and understandable. InstaText automatically improves the clarity and style of a text, corrects grammatical errors, enriches your content and helps you rephrase and paraphrase your academic texts.

https://www.copy.ai  Write better marketing copy and content with AI. Get great copy that sells. Copy.ai is an AI-powered copywriter that generates high-quality copy for your business. Get started for free, no credit card required! Marketing simplified!

https://www.grammarcoach.com Let Grammar Coach make you a better writer. Grammar Coach is the only free, easy-to-use spelling, punctuation, and grammar checker you need. This formidable, AI-backed tool corrects all your mistakes, taking your writing from good to great instantly.

https://donotpay.com  The World’s First Robot Lawyer. The DoNotPay app is the home of the world’s first robot lawyer. Fight corporations, beat bureaucracy and sue anyone at the press of a button.

https://www.personal.ai  Create from your memories. AI that’s personally yours. Supercharge your memory and relationships with your own, personal AI messenger. Personal.ai, a leading AI startup, is on a mission to revolutionize human connection with its AI-first messaging platform.

https://gemini.google.com Gemini, Google’s generative AI chatbot, emerged as a formidable contender in the AI landscape, initially launched as Bard in 2023. This development was a strategic response to the rapid success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which had taken the world by storm since its release in November 2022. Google’s chatbot, initially based on the LaMDA model, transitioned to the Gemini large language model (LLM) in December 2023, marking a significant upgrade in its capabilities. Gemini’s evolution reflects Google’s commitment to integrating advanced AI into its ecosystem. By February 2024, Bard and Duet AI were unified under the Gemini brand, coinciding with the launch of an Android app. This integration extended Gemini’s reach across various Google products, including Search, Workspace, and Pixel phones, enhancing their functionality with smarter, more intuitive AI features.

https://x.ai/grok xAI is a company working on building artificial intelligence to accelerate human scientific discovery. We are guided by our mission to advance our collective understanding of the universe. Our team is led by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. Collectively our team contributed some of the most widely used methods in the field, in particular the Adam optimizer, Batch Normalization, Layer Normalization, and the discovery of adversarial examples. We further introduced innovative techniques and analyses such as Transformer-XL, Autoformalization, the Memorizing Transformer, Batch Size Scaling, ?Transfer, and SimCLR. We have worked on and led the development of some of the largest breakthroughs in the field including AlphaStar, AlphaCode, Inception, Minerva, GPT-3.5, and GPT-4. Our team is advised by Dan Hendrycks who currently serves as the director of the Center for AI Safety. We partner closely with X Corp to bring our technology to more than 500 million users of the X app.

https://claude.ai Claude AI, developed by Anthropic, is a family of large language models designed to assist with a wide range of tasks, from simple queries to complex problem-solving. The Claude 3 family, released in March 2024, includes models like Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, each optimized for different tasks such as speed, balanced performance, and complex reasoning. Claude is available through both web and API access, with pricing options that cater to different needs. The free tier offers basic access, while the Pro plan at $20 per month provides enhanced features and increased usage limits. API access is billed based on token usage, with different costs for each model. Users appreciate Claude for its ability to remember past interactions, making it feel like a knowledgeable friend. It excels in tasks requiring nuanced understanding and complex reasoning, often preferred over other AI models like ChatGPT for specific applications.

https://www.notion.so  Explore real workflows that save companies time, eliminate old tools, and bring peace of mind. Notion is a freemium productivity and note-taking web application developed by Notion Labs Inc. It offers organizational tools including task management, project tracking, to-do lists, bookmarking, and more. Additional offline features are offered by desktop and mobile applications available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. Users can create custom templates, embed videos and web content, and collaborate with others in real-time.

https://aiseo.ai/tools/article-rewriter.html AISEO is a writing assistant which allow you to generate SEO optimized content in minutes instead of hours. AISEO also offer the most advanced paraphrasing tool in the market. … This new Chrome extension just makes AISEO the most powerful AI copywriting tool I use to generate content for my websites and SEO strategy. I am thrilled with it!”.

https://namelix.com  Generate a short, brandable business name using artificial intelligence. It generates short, catchy names with a state of the art language model Filter results Decide whether you prioritize a shorter name, having a specific keyword or domain extension Save your names Our algorithm learns from the names you like, giving you better recommendations over time Why a branded name?

https://withflair.ai  Flair the AI Design Tool for Branded Content. Generate high quality marketing assets in seconds. “Flair is 10x faster and 10x cheaper.” My First Million Pod – Shaan Puri “Not only does Flair capture the essence of each drink, but they look pretty amazing too.”” Kava Social – Zoe “My Flair posts sell faster than my own product photography!

AI VOICE LANGUAGE AND MUSIC

https://gliglish.com  Learn from speaking, like a child would. Use the most natural way to learn: your voice. If you learn from text, your accent will be hard to understand ?? But if you learn from speaking, you’ll sound like a native. Don’t make the same mistake I did, speak clearly from day 1!

https://beta.elevenlabs.io  Powered by our proprietary deep learning model, the tool lets you voice anything from a single sentence to a whole book in impeccable quality, at a fraction of the time and cost traditionally involved in recording. Your creative AI toolkit. Clone voices from samples or clone your own voice. Or design entirely new synthetic voices from scratch.

https://www.descript.com  There’s a new way to make video and podcasts. A good way. Descript is the simple, powerful, and fun way to edit.

https://www.riffusion.com  Stable diffusion for real-time music generation. Riffusion is a latent text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating spectrogram images given any text input. These spectrograms can be converted into audio clips. The model was created by Seth Forsgren and Hayk Martiros as a hobby project. You can use the Riffusion model directly, or try the Riffusion web app.

https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/  Text to speech with AI Powered natural sounding voices. Supports PDF, office documents, ebooks, webpages, Convert text to audio files.

https://www.beatoven.ai/ Create customisable royalty free music that elevates your story. Beatoven.ai is a website that uses advanced AI music generation techniques to compose unique mood-based music to suit every part of a user’s video or podcast. It features 8 different genres and 16 different moods that a user can choose from to customize their music. It also has a streaming output feature with industry standard mixing and mastering.

https://text-speech.net  Voice generating program

IMAGES GRAPHIC AND VIDEOS

https://zonerai.com ZonerAI is a free AI image editor & creator. Create and edit images using artificial intelligence – anytime, anywhere, without limits. Thanks to artificial intelligence, you can enhance, retouch, and transform your images quickly and intuitively. Whether you need to edit photos online, remove unwanted elements, or improve image quality, Zoner AI Editor has you covered. The site is developed by Zoner a.s., the company known for the professional photo editing software Zoner Photo Studio. Object and Background Removal: Remove unwanted elements or replace the background instantly. Enhancement and Upscaling: Increase resolution and optimize image colors, contrast, and detail. And much more!

https://openai.com/dall-e-2  DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language. You can also upload your images and edit them or make other generations from them.

https://leonardo.ai AI Image Generator – Create Art, Images & Video | Leonardo AI. Leonardo AI offers a suite of creative AI tools to generate high-quality, print-ready, and style-consistent images for your projects. Explore various models, settings, and features to create photorealistic, artistic, or anime-focused outputs with ease.

https://www.visla.us  Visla is an AI-powered video creation platform that allows users to create professional videos using free, premium, or private stock footage. The platform also offers video recording, editing, branding, collaboration, and training features. It can be used for a variety of purposes, such as marketing, training, and internal communication. Users can access step-by-step video guides to learn how to use the platform.

https://lumenor.ai/ Lumenor AI: Advanced AI-Powered Image Generation for Digital Art Creation lumenor.ai Illuminating your imagination with AI-generated images of unparalleled beauty. Get early access to the lumenor.ai be the first to try out new features. Free Plan $ 0 100 image credits per month Commercial use Images are public No upscaling Rate limits.

https://www.midjourney.com Image generating program View your images in the Midjourney public channels and DMs, you can create servers and channels. is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species.

https://www.bluewillow.ai/ Similar to Midjourney. Simply enter a prompt and let our tool do the rest. From logos and graphics to digital artwork and more, our tool can generate a wide range of images that are perfect for any project. Join us to Create Amazing AI-Generated Images, just describe the image you want and our AI image generating tool will create the perfect graphic for your project. It’s all FREE.

https://stablediffusionweb.com  Image generating program. Stable Diffusion is a latent text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating photo-realistic images given any text input, cultivates autonomous freedom to produce incredible imagery, empowers billions of people to create stunning art within seconds. Create beautiful art using stable diffusion ONLINE for free.

https://auth.d-id.com  Generate video with voice. Say goodbye to expensive traditional video creation! Create videos from plain text in minutes! Easy to use, cheap and scalable.

https://brandmark.io  Brandmark Logo Maker – the most advanced AI logo design tool. Create a unique logo, business card and social media graphics in less than a minute. Build your brand identity with our generative AI.

https://mycharacter.ai  A dApp built on the AI protocol that leverages CharacterGPT the worlds first Text-to-Character AI system to generate realistic, intelligent, and interactive AI characters.

https://www.beautiful.ai  Presentation software that designs for you. This is Beautiful.ai— the first presentation maker that is an expert deck designer, so you don’t have to be. Make your business look brilliant, keep your team forever on brand, and save hours on pitches you’re actually proud of.

https://zoomscape.ai/  Create stunning Zoom backgrounds with AI. Showcase your personality and make a memorable impression on your next video call

https://waymark.com  Waymark’s AI video creator makes it so fast and easy to create compelling sample commercials that you can walk into any and every prospect meeting with spec creative.

https://tome.app  Unlock your best work with Tome’s AI-powered storytelling format. Type in a prompt and generate entire narratives from scratch within seconds, supported by GPT-3 and AI-generated images from DALL·E 2. We created Tome to help you flourish. We work with the best instructors in the world to bring you a guided experience through any given topic.

https://aitwo.co  it is an all-in-one design tool powered by AI. With AITWO.CO, users can create tattoos, fashion designs, interior and exterior redesigns, and more. . Try it now and see what you can create! Interior Design & Redesign with AI. To design interior of room, use this . To design exterior of homes/ buildings click exterior from bottom bar.

https://fliki.ai  Turn text into videos with AI voices and much more. Create videos from scripts or blog posts using realistic voices in 2 minutes! Find perfect visuals and create a video with a human-like voice over in your desired voice with branded subtitles. Lifelike Text to Speech Voices. Stop using robotic voices in your videos, sound human with the best AI neural voices.

https://app.towords.io  Convert your Youtube Videos into a blog post. It extracts the speech in your video using the latest and greatest speech recognition tools and turns it into a text.

https://vidyo.ai  Make short videos from long ones instantly. Create social ready short clips from your long videos with AI ? Save 90% time and effort. AI Based Content Repurposing – vidyo.ai automatically selects, edits & captions top moments from your videos. Import Your Video. Upload a video from your computer or use a Youtube link. Set Your Preferences. Tell us your requirements for platforms, formats, & templates. Get Your Videos In Minutes. Our AI will make customized short videos.

https://www.sloyd.ai/  Sloyd – Generate 3D. Fast. Instant Automagic 3D creation 3D modelling has never been easier. Select a generator, tweak it, and export. Try beta FAQ Can I create anything using text prompts? Is this generative Machine Learning? How does it work? Where do you get your generators? How can I contribute?

https://www.synthesia.io  Create AI videos by simply typing in text. Easy to use, cheap and scalable. Make engaging videos with human presenters – directly from your browser. Free demo. It generates virtual Avatar.

https://avatarai.me  Create your own photo realistic AI Avatars Create your own AI Avatars now – $30 $24 Waiting time: 37 minutes – 3,000 avatars sold today ?? Choose from 112+ different styles to transform into After payment you can select up to 15 styles you want from the ones below. For each style we’ll generate 8 avatars, for a total of 120+ avatars.

https://pimeyes.com/en  PimEyes is an online face search engine that goes through the Internet to find pictures containing given faces. PimEyes uses face recognition search technologies to perform a reverse image search. Find a face and check where the image appears online. Our face finder helps you find a face and protect your privacy.

https://www.reimaginehome.ai  Redesign any space to match your vision, or let our AI show you inspiring designs in seconds. or Unlock creative possibilities with REimagine Our AI redesigns any space through evaluating architectural elements, detecting room type, understanding preferred design styles and adhering to your color preferences & text instructions. Used inputs.

https://interiorai.com  Interior AI: Interior Design Ideas Inspiration, and Virtual Staging App using Artifical Intelligence. You get widely different results with each mode. Virtual Staging mode will auto detect the construction (like walls, ceiling, beams) and tries to avoid changing it, while Interior Design mode doesn’t but gives you more creative ideas.

AI GAMES,  SOFTWARE, FINANCE AND COMMERCE

https://play.aidungeon.io AI Dungeon is a text-based, AI-generated fantasy simulation with infinite possibilities. Unlike most games where you experience worlds created by game designers, with AI Dungeon, you can direct the AI to create worlds, characters, and scenarios for your character to interact with. Infinite creativity, brought to life by AI. We’re building a place to discover, explore and create in the first ecosystem of AI collaboration and creativity. Get early access through your AI Dungeon Hero or Legend subscription.

https://textsynth.com  Text completion using large language models. GPT-J is a 6 billion parameter English model. It has some abilities in other languages too, including computer languages. Boris is a fine-tuned version of GPT-J for the French language. GPT-NeoX 20B is the largest model. TextSynth provides access to large language or text-to-image models through a REST API and a playground. It offers custom inference code for faster inference on standard GPUs and CPUs. The basic service is free but rate limited, and users can pay a small amount per request for no limitation. Custom support is available.

https://aws.amazon.com  AWS offers compute services, database storage, content delivery, and other capabilities to help you build sophisticated applications in a flexible, scalable, and reliable way.

https://dataconomy.com  Artificial intelligence applications in financial services: Software with AI capabilities deliver a higher level of objectivity AI is advantageous for many other businesses besides banks. For instance, auto loan providers claim that using AI allowed them to reduce losses by up to 23% annually.

https://www.brancher.ai  is a platform that enables users to connect and use AI models to create powerful apps without the need for coding knowledge. With Brancher.ai, users can create AI-powered apps quickly and easily, allowing them to tap into the potential of AI and build unique, sophisticated applications.

https://durable.co  Build a website in 30 seconds with AI. The AI website builder that generates an entire business website with images and copy in seconds. Try it free for 30 days.

https://uizard.io  Uizard | App, Web, & UI Design Made Easy | Powered By AI Design stunning websites in minutes. Visualize and communicate your ideas effortlessly. No design experience required! Sign up for free Trusted by individuals and teams at the world’s boldest companies AI Design Automation Turn screenshots into editable designs.

https://builtin.com/  Artificial intelligence, finance, banking, and applications. Go where the talent is. Partner with Built In and reach hard-to-hire. professionals. you won’t find elsewhere. Work your passion. Live your purpose. Explore all tech jobs, companies + more across the nation. All Tech Jobs See All Remote Tech Jobs.

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Hildegard of Bingen, Creativity and Writing. An article that traces the life, works, and intellectual and religious commitment of an extraordinary woman.

In memory of Sister Iginia, the choirmaster in which my young mother, Innocenza, sang.

Recte scire, recte agere. Bernardus Claravallensis – De laude novae militiae ad Milites Templi.

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was an extraordinarily multifaceted figure of the Middle Ages, whose creative genius and writing stemmed from a profound mystical-visionary experience. Named a Doctor of the Church, she combined theology, music, herbalism, and writing, leaving a legacy that continues to inspire.

Here are the key aspects of her creativity and written output:

Writing as Vision and Revelation

The Creative Spark: For Hildegard, all knowledge, whether musical or written, was born from a vision, described as “the flaming light” that flooded her brain and chest, not in a dream but in full consciousness.
Creative Obedience: In 1141, at the age of 42, she received an injunction from a “Vox de Cielo” (Voice from Heaven) to write down what she saw and heard. This marked the beginning of her literary production, despite her self-described “fragile being.”
Major Works: Among her major works are the Scivias (Know the Ways), the Liber Divinorum Operum (Book of Divine Works), and the Symphony of the Harmony of Heavenly Revelations.

Creativity and Linguistic Innovation

Lingua Ignota: Hildegard is known for creating one of the first documented artificial languages, the Lingua Ignota (“unknown language”), composed of a 23-letter alphabet (ignotae litterae), likely used for mystical and liturgical purposes.
Theological Creativity: Her writing is distinguished by its ability to rework theology in a symbolic and prophetic manner, describing the universe and its relationship with the divine through iridescent and poetic images.

Writing Themes and Artistic Production

Poetry and Music: She composed sacred hymns, orations, and the Ordo Virtutum, a liturgical musical drama that combines theology and artistic creativity.
Science and Nature (Viriditas): She wrote treatises on medicine and natural sciences (Physica and Causae et Curae), describing the properties of herbs and the life force she called Viriditas (verdant force), uniting creativity with healing.
Epistles: She wrote numerous spiritual and political letters, addressing popes and emperors such as Frederick Barbarossa.

A Model of Feminine Creativity

Hildegard imposed her wise voice in a male-dominated age, founding monasteries and preaching publicly, an extraordinary feat for the 12th century. Her holistic approach, uniting body and soul, music and healing, made her a model of conscious creativity ahead of its time.

St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) is the patron saint of musicians, writers, and natural scientists, recognized for her immense contributions as a German Benedictine abbess, composer, philosopher, and mystic. Canonized in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI and named a Doctor of the Church, she is celebrated for uniting faith, creativity, and science.

Key aspects of St. Hildegard of Bingen:

Patronage: She is widely regarded as the patron saint of musicians, writers, and natural scientists due to her creative and scientific work.
Musical Legacy: Known for composing liturgical music, including the Ordo Virtutum, a notable early morality play. Her music is characterized by monophonic melodies.
Writings and Medicine: She documented her spiritual visions in books like Scivias and authored medical texts concerning natural remedies and healing.
“Green Power”: She believed in viriditas, or “greening power,” connecting God to the creativity and vitality of nature.
Feast Day: Her feast day is celebrated on September 17.

She is a prominent figure for artists and thinkers, embodying a holistic approach to spirituality and creativity.

Reason is the root through which the resonant word blossoms.
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There is the music of Heaven in all things.
Hildegard of Bingen

The human soul is “symphonic”; music is part of the profound nature.
Hildegard of Bingen

Sed et anima hominis symphoniam in se habet et symphonizans est, unde etiam multotiens plantus educit, cum symphoniam audit, quoniam de patria in exilium se missam meminit. (But the soul of man also has a symphony within itself and is a symphonist, from which it often also generates plants when it hears a symphony, because it remembers having been sent into exile from its homeland..)
Hildegard von Bingen

Dare to declare who you are. It’s not far from the shores of silence at the edge of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk it, you must be ready to leap.
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We cannot live in a world interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not hope. Part of the terror lies in reclaiming our ability to listen, in using our voice, in seeing our light.
Hildegard of Bingen

The soul is the life force that invigorates the flesh, for the body grows and thrives through it, just as the earth becomes fertile when moistened. The soul moistens the body so that it does not dry out, just as rain seeps into the earth.
Hildegard of Bingen

We cannot live in a world interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not hope. Part of the terror is reclaiming our ability to listen, using our voice, seeing our light… Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence at the edge of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk it, you must be ready to leap.
Hildegard of Bingen

A woman of many talents, she was also a prophetess, healer, herbalist, naturalist, cosmologist, gemologist, philosopher, artist, poet, playwright, musician, linguist, and political advisor. She was consulted for advice and assistance by many eminent figures of her time, such as Frederick Barbarossa, Philip of Alsace, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, and Eugene III.

They walled her up alive, not metaphorically, but for real. A little girl locked in a stone cell, behind a gate, destined never to emerge. That little girl was Hildegard of Bingen (1098 – September 17, 1179), also known as Hildegard of Bingen or “Sibyl of the Rhine,” one of the most extraordinary figures of the Middle Ages. She was born, the youngest of ten children, in Bermersheim vor der Höhe, near Alzey, in Rhenish Hesse, in the summer of 1098, a year before the Crusaders conquered Jerusalem. She should have disappeared into the silence of a medieval monastery, but instead she became one of the most extraordinary minds of the Middle Ages: a mystic, philosopher, composer, naturalist, healer, advisor to popes and emperors. A woman who spoke when women were asked only to remain silent, and it all began in a locked cell.

At eight years old, she was locked up by her own family. This was supposed to be her end, but instead she became a voice that, centuries later, still burns. This child will not live long, they told her mother. She is a girl, and that alone makes her superfluous. Her body is fragile, her mind is burning. In the twelfth century, a child like Hildegard von Bingen is not a gift, she is a problem. She is too weak for marriage, unsuitable for domestic life. Her family doesn’t know what to do with her, so they choose the simplest and cruelest solution: seclusion. A locked room, a gate, and away they go. She is entrusted to Jutta von Sponheim, a young noblewoman who lives as a recluse at Disibodenberg Abbey.

Little Hildegard grew up in that almost walled-off cell, in a form of spiritual confinement we can barely even imagine today. There, she learned early that crying was pointless. That feeling too much was a sin. But in that very cell, something unexpected happened. From childhood, Hildegard recounted having luminous visions, interior experiences that accompanied her throughout her life. For years, she kept them secret, fearing she would be judged mad or possessed. Meanwhile, she studied, listened, learned Latin, the liturgy, and the Scriptures. This was how her life should have ended: a prisoner in a cage others had chosen for her. But not so. Little by little, something inside her rebelled.

From a very young age, she showed signs of fragile health and mystical visions (as early as 3-5 years old). As I mentioned, at around the age of 8, she was entrusted to Jutta von Sponheim, a recluse at the Benedictine monastery of Disibodenberg, where she received a basic religious education. She professed as a Benedictine nun around the age of 14-15. Upon Jutta’s death (1136), she became superior of the small female community. In 1141 he fell seriously ill and had a great visionary experience which he interpreted as a divine command to write down and spread what he saw: from there was born his main work, the Scivias («Know the Ways»), completed around 1151 and approved by Pope Eugene III thanks also to the interest of Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), a French Cistercian monk, a mystic of enormous influence, considered the main spiritual innovator of the 12th century, a charismatic theologian, a very powerful preacher and leader of the Second Crusade, a figure who left a profound mark both on Christian spirituality and on the ecclesiastical politics of his time.

For many years, Hildegard had visions but refused to write them down. According to her accounts, everything changed when she became seriously ill. She interpreted her illness as a divine sign: she was resisting the mission entrusted to her. Only when she began writing her great book, Scivias, did she say the illness disappeared. For her, this was proof that she had to speak out. She also wrote hundreds of letters to powerful figures of the time, including Frederick I Barbarossa and Pope Eugene III. In these letters, she was far from shy; on the contrary, she rebuked the powerful when she thought they were governing poorly, something almost unthinkable for a woman in the 12th century.

The visions Hildegard described are incredibly rich in cosmic imagery. Her book Scivias features egg-shaped universes, circles of fire, human figures within cosmic structures, and currents of energy flowing through the world. Many modern scholars have noted that some of these images are strikingly reminiscent of modern cosmological representations. Of course, Hildegard wasn’t practicing science in the current sense, but her symbolic ability was extraordinary. She herself wrote that the visions came as a “living light” that showed her the structure of the world.

There is, in fact, a very interesting theory, discussed by various modern scholars, according to which Hildegard von Bingen’s visions could also have a neurological explanation. This doesn’t mean reducing her mystical experience to an illness, but rather trying to understand how the phenomenon worked from a medical perspective. Some neurologists have carefully observed the images contained in her book Scivias and other works. Many of the figures she describes are highly distinctive: intense, pulsating lights, concentric luminous circles, sparkling shapes, jagged lines crossing the visual field. These phenomena are very reminiscent of what in neurology are called migraine auras.

During some forms of migraine with aura, people see bright sparks, glowing zigzags, geometric shapes, and distorted visual fields. Scholars have noted that some medieval illustrations of Hildegard’s visions are remarkably similar to modern depictions of these neurological phenomena. According to this hypothesis, Hildegard may have had a special neurological sensitivity that produced these intense visual experiences. But the truly extraordinary thing isn’t the phenomenon itself. It’s what she did with it. Many people have migraine with aura. Almost no one transforms those images into a cosmological system, a theological work, or a symbolic vision of the universe, yet Hildegard succeeded in transforming those inner experiences into thought, art, and knowledge.

She described the experience this way: she saw an intense light that she called lux vivens, the “living light.” She also said something very interesting: the visions did not cause her to lose consciousness. She wrote that she saw them “with her inner eyes,” remaining fully lucid. This detail has greatly intrigued modern scholars. A mind beyond the ordinary, and whatever the explanation – mystical, symbolic, or neurological – one thing is certain: Hildegard von Bingen’s mind was extraordinary. She managed to combine in a single person: spirituality, natural science, medicine, music, and philosophy. And all this starting with a little girl whom her own family had decided to lock up in a cell.

One of the most curious aspects is that Hildegard also invented her own language, called Lingua Ignota. It was a kind of symbolic language with new words, probably designed to express spiritual concepts that Latin could not express. It is one of the earliest known examples of an artificial language in European history. Hildegard also composed dozens of sacred songs, collected in the Symphonia armoniae celestium revelationum. Surprisingly, her music is very different from traditional Gregorian chant: it has much broader, almost ecstatic melodic lines. Her music is still performed today in concerts and on modern recordings.

At forty, having become the leader of the small monastic community, Hildegard made a radical gesture for a woman of her time: she took up a pen and wrote. Thus was born Scivias, the book of her visions. The title means Scito vias Domini – “Know the ways of the Lord.” It is an extraordinary text: theology, cosmology, symbolism, powerful images that recount creation, the destiny of man, the struggle between light and darkness. When the manuscript reaches Pope Eugene III, something no one could have foreseen happens. The Pope is struck by the power of that female voice and, during the Synod of Trier, officially authorizes Hildegard to write and spread her visions.

It was an extraordinary moment: a twelfth-century woman received public recognition for teaching, and from that moment Hildegard never stopped. She wrote theological works, medical treatises, and natural sciences such as Physica and Causae et Curae. She studied the properties of plants, minerals, and the human body. She composed music – hundreds of liturgical chants – collected in the Symphonia armoniae celestium revelationum, one of the most original musical works of the Middle Ages. She traveled and preached publicly, a rare feat for a woman of the time. Music and audio

She founded new monasteries, including Rupertsberg Monastery. She wrote to popes, emperors, and bishops, even admonishing Frederick I Barbarossa when she believed power was deviating from justice. And in her works, she championed a surprisingly modern idea: men and women are not meant to dominate each other, but to complement each other. She essentially restored women’s spiritual dignity in an era that rarely recognized it. Thus, the little girl everyone thought was too fragile – the one they had locked behind bars – became one of the most extraordinary minds of the Middle Ages.

Hildegard was a true polymath of the 12th century: a mystic and theologian (three great visionary works: Scivias, Liber Vitae Meritorum, Liber Divinorum Operum), a composer (she created the largest corpus of music by a single medieval author, including the Ordo Virtutum, considered the first musical “moral play” in history), a writer of scientific and medical texts (Physica and Causae et Curae, fundamental to medieval knowledge of herbs, minerals, and body care), and a political and religious advisor (she wrote letters to popes, emperors, bishops, and kings, not hesitating to openly criticize corruption and abuse). It is also noteworthy that Hildegard was so famous in the Middle Ages that even emperors and popes awaited her letters. Some are incredibly harsh and almost seem to have been written by a modern reformer.

For many years Hildegard lived in the male monastery of Disibodenberg Abbey, where she led a small community of nuns. At a certain point she had a very clear conviction: her nuns should have an independent monastery. The problem was that the abbot absolutely did not want to let them go. The nuns were noble and brought prestige and donations to the monastery. According to the chronicles, Hildegard reacted in a surprising way. She fell into a kind of sudden paralysis and declared it a divine sign: God would not allow her to move until the monastery accepted her request. Eventually the monks gave in, and so Hildegard founded her own independent female monastery in Rupertsberg, near Bingen around 1150 (where she moved with her nuns despite much opposition), and later founded a second one in Eibingen (1165). It was a remarkable victory: a woman who challenged male monastic authority and won.

Toward the end of her life, an even more incredible episode occurred. Hildegard permitted the burial in her monastery of a man who had previously been excommunicated but who, she believed, had reconciled with God before his death. The local church authorities disagreed and so ordered something drastic: the body must be exhumed. Hildegard, however, refused to obey, and not only did she conceal the exact location of the burial, so that no one could find the tomb. The Church’s response was harsh: the monastery was placed under an interdict, a ban on celebrating the liturgy and even singing, which for a monastic community was a very serious punishment. Hildegard, however, wrote such a forceful theological defense that the church authorities were eventually forced to revoke the punishment, and thus a nun won a confrontation with the highest authority in the ecclesiastical hierarchy.

Besides being a mystic and theologian, Hildegard was also a scholar of nature and health. In her treatises Physica and Causae et Curae, she described hundreds of natural remedies, medicinal plants, minerals, and observations of the human body. For the 12th century, she was something extraordinary: a woman who systematized medical knowledge. But the most surprising thing is that some of her ideas seem very modern. Hildegard insisted on a principle that is almost obvious today but was far from obvious in the Middle Ages: food can be medicine. Among the foods she most frequently recommended was spelt, which she considered one of the healthiest grains for the human body. She wrote that spelt “gives good blood and a happy mind.” Today we know it is rich in fiber, vitamins, and minerals.

The importance of balance between body and mind is another fundamental aspect of her interpretations. For Hildegard, many illnesses stemmed from an imbalance between body, emotions, and spirit. She used a central concept in her natural philosophy: viriditas – a Latin word meaning more or less vital force, green vitality, energy of life. According to her, health depended on the presence of this vital energy in the body and in nature. When viriditas is extinguished, illness arises. This vision is strikingly similar to many modern psychosomatic concepts.

In her treatise Physica, she described dozens of medicinal plants. For example, fennel aids digestion, sage strengthens the body, nettle is an energizing food, and lemon balm calms the heart and mind. Many of these uses are still recognized today in phytotherapy. A medicine that focuses on the individual, not just the disease. Perhaps most interestingly, Hildegard didn’t just look at the symptom; she believed the doctor should consider the person’s character, diet, emotions, and rhythm of life. In other words, a holistic view of health—a concept that has become very present in contemporary medicine.

She died on September 17, 1179, in Rupertsberg, at the age of 81. She had been venerated as a saint since the Middle Ages, although formal canonization only came in 2012, when Pope Benedict XVI also proclaimed her a Doctor of the Church, one of the highest titles in the Catholic tradition and one that only a very few women in history have received as recognition, and the patron saint of musicians and writers, celebrated annually on September 17. Today, she is admired both for her spiritual depth and for her extraordinary contribution to music, natural science, theology, and the intellectual emancipation of women in the Middle Ages.

In short, locked away as a child because she was deemed too fragile, Hildegard of Bingen became one of the most extraordinary minds of the Middle Ages. A mystic, composer, philosopher, naturalist, and healer, she spoke to popes, challenged emperors, wrote books, founded monasteries, and studied nature and the human body, demonstrating that sometimes history tries to silence certain voices, but those voices are precisely those destined to change the world. They cannot be extinguished, but are born and developed to demonstrate to everyone that profound commitment and tenacious self-belief can make us shine and thus illuminate our humanity.

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Ireland quotes and aphorisms, quotations and literary thoughts by great and famous Irish writers with also some proverbs.

I know where I’m going I know who’s going with me I know who I love And the devil knows who I’ll marry.
Traditional Irish folk song (Judy Collins) (Ireland quotes and aphorisms)

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.
John Pentland Mahaffy

Alcohol is a very necessary article… It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
George Bernard Shaw

When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.
James Joyce (1882-1941, Irish author)

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?”
Quentin Crisp (1908-1999, British author)

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
James Joyce (1882-1941, Irish author)

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say “I know” instead of “I am learning,” and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
Brendan F. Behan (1923-1964, Irish writer)

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Brendan F. Behan (1923-1964, Irish writer)

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.
Sean O’Casey (1884-1964, Irish dramatist)

If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they’d realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.
Sean O’Casey (1884-1964, Irish dramatist)

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don’t think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but… I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don’t think there is a superstitious article in it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816, Anglo-Irish dramatist)

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816, Anglo-Irish dramatist)

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849, Irish writer and socialite)

Beauty is all very well at first sight, but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead — ahead of myself as well as you.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.
Patrick Campbell (1913-1980, Irish humorist)

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into — matrimony.
George Farquhar (c.1677-1707, Irish playwright)

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

And say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)

Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
George Fabricius (1678-1707, Irish dramatist)

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she’s still virtuous; that’s a maxim.
George Farquhar (c.1677-1707, Irish playwright)

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One’s relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973, Anglo-Irish novelist)

Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner’s free will in an embattled circle.
Sean O’Casey (1884-1964, Irish dramatist)

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)

The drama’s altar isn’t on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it’s roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.
Sean O’Casey (1884-1964, Irish dramatist)

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience — it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816, Anglo-Irish dramatist)

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
J. M. Synge (1871-1909, Irish poet, dramatist)

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce (1882-1941, Irish author)

A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce (1882-1941, Irish author)

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it, said the Philosopher.
James Stephens (1882-1950, Irish poet, author)

The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.
Sean O’Casey (1884-1964, Irish dramatist)

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)

The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774, Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright)

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one’s heart; but death is a splendid thing — a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

I want to be all used up when I die.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
Percival Arland Ussher (1899-1980, Irish author, critic)

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816, Anglo-Irish dramatist)

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
Iris Murdoch (British novelist, philosopher)

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
James Stephens (1882-1950, Irish poet, author)

To be born woman is to know — although they do not speak of it at school — women must labor to be beautiful.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
George Moore (1852-1933, Irish writer)

There’s no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
George Farquhar (c.1677-1707, Irish playwright)

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

The seven deadly sins… food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man’s neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)

Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
James Joyce (1882-1941, Irish author)

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.
Richard Chevenix Trench (1807-1886, Irish ecclesiastic, archbishop of Dublin)

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849, Irish writer and socialite)

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849, Irish writer and socialite)

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774, Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright)

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849, Irish writer and socialite)

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Thomas Moore (1779-1852, Irish poet)

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973, Anglo-Irish novelist)

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849, Irish writer and socialite)

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816, Anglo-Irish dramatist)

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774, Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright)

I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word “stammer.” I can’t say it myself.
Patrick Campbell (1913-1980, Irish humorist)

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849, Irish writer and socialite)

You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive.
James Stephens (1882-1950, Irish poet, author)

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
John Anster (1789–1867, Irish poet)

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973, Anglo-Irish novelist)

Birth was the death of him.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

Those who know the least obey the best.
George Farquhar (c.1677-1707, Irish playwright)

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

Better never than late.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816, Anglo-Irish dramatist)

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

So long as one does not despair, so long as one doesn’t look upon life bitterly, things work out fairly well in the end.
George Moore (1852-1933, Irish writer)

In dreams begin responsibility.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)

Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
Patrick Kavanagh (1905-1967, Irish poet, author)

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens (1882-1950, Irish poet, author)

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use — silence, exile and cunning.
James Joyce (1882-1941, Irish author)

I… chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774, Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright)

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
Thomas Moore (1779-1852, Irish poet)

This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

A nation is the same people living in the same place.
James Joyce (1882-1941, Irish author)

The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine… a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.
Conor Cruise O’Brien (1917-, Irish historian, critic, and statesman)

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
Brendan F. Behan (1923-1964, Irish writer)

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
George Farquhar (c.1677-1707, Irish playwright)

I’m only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another’s soul.
James Joyce (1882-1941, Irish author)

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore (1852-1933, Irish writer)

Let me go to hell, that’s all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.
Robert Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972, Irish poet)

Don’t set your wit against a child.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
Thomas Moore (1779-1852, Irish poet)

Habit is a great deadener.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.
George Moore (1852-1933, Irish writer)

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Patrick Campbell (1913-1980, Irish humorist)

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, but, as truly, loves on to the close.
Thomas Moore (1779-1852, Irish poet)

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Edward Dowden (1843-1913, Irish critic)

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
Robert Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972, Irish poet)

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816, Anglo-Irish dramatist)

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)

The latter part of a wise person’s life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

The bastard! He doesn’t exist!
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

Money swore an oath that nobody who did not love it should ever have it.
Irish Proverb (Sayings of Irish origin)

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.
James Joyce (1882-1941, Irish author)

I think a child should be allowed to take his father’s or mother’s name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
James Joyce (1882-1941, Irish author)

He who has never hoped can never despair.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy — for I am myself three-parts a fool.
Patrick Campbell (1913-1980, Irish humorist)

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
George Fabricius (1678-1707, Irish dramatist)

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?
James Joyce (1882-1941, Irish author)

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.
George Farquhar (c.1677-1707, Irish playwright)

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816, Anglo-Irish dramatist)

It is not the literal past, the “facts” of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
Brian Friel (1929-, Irish playwright, author)

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973, Anglo-Irish novelist)

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan F. Behan (1923-1964, Irish writer)

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973, Anglo-Irish novelist)

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover’s apprehension.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816, Anglo-Irish dramatist)

There comes a point in many people’s lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.
Brian Moore (1921-, Irish novelist)

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
Amy Carmichael (1867-1951, Irish missionary)

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
James Joyce (1882-1941, Irish author)

There is nothing so consoling as to find one’s neighbor’s troubles are at least as great as one’s own.
George Moore (1852-1933, Irish writer)

Make sense who may. I switch off.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)

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