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100 awesome great quotes, a collection of great aphorisms by famous authors to stimulate your thoughts, ideas, reflections and ways of dealing with reality, edited for the World of English blog by Carl William Brown<\/a>, a sincere literary avenger. (Find out more about him on Amazon).<\/span><\/p>\n

Vulgus (Mundus o Populus) vult decipi, ergo decipiatur. (The world wants to be deceived, and so it is.)<\/span><\/p>\n

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.<\/span>
\nJack London<\/span><\/p>\n

Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?<\/span>
\nLewis Carroll<\/span><\/p>\n

The art of politics and war serve above all to provide concrete empirical evidence for the understanding of human imbecility.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.<\/span>
\nRumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Art is the incessant effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeed.<\/span>
\nMarc Chagall<\/span><\/p>\n

Pain is a strange thing, you feel like you’ve reached the top and then you realize you’ve just started the climb. Pain has no limit, endurance does.<\/span>
\nAndros<\/span><\/p>\n

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of intelligent women.<\/span>
\nLeo Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.<\/span>
\nAbraham Maslow<\/span><\/p>\n

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.<\/span>
\nHarry Emerson Fosdick<\/span><\/p>\n

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one’s own ignorance.<\/span>
\nNiccolo Machiavelli<\/span><\/p>\n

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The whole world is a small place and has always been a big mess, so be prepared.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.<\/span>
\nJoseph Joubert<\/span><\/p>\n

When the listener does not understand the speaker and the speaker does not know what he is saying: this is philosophy.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.<\/span>
\nBill Maher<\/span><\/p>\n

When we are no longer able to change a situation \u2013 we are challenged to change ourselves.<\/span>
\nViktor E. Frankl<\/span><\/p>\n

The great and tragic problem about artificial intelligence is that it is strongly influenced by natural stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

We are all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.<\/span>
\nRudyard Kipling<\/span><\/p>\n

The time you enjoy waisting is not wasted time.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.<\/span>
\nJosh Billings<\/span><\/p>\n

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.<\/span>
\nImmanuel Kant<\/span><\/p>\n

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is \u2018merely relative,\u2019 is asking you not to believe him. So don\u2019t.<\/span>
\nRoger Scruton<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.<\/span>
\nJoseph Addison<\/span><\/p>\n

A philosopher who says: “There are no truths, but only interpretations” risks the retort: “Is that true, or only an interpretation?.”<\/span>
\nRoger Scruton<\/span><\/p>\n

Where pain, risk, anxiety, memories, dissatisfaction and death roam, there my destiny was forged.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.<\/span>
\nRoy. T. Bennett<\/span><\/p>\n

One day machines will be able to solve all problems, but none of them will ever be able to pose a problem.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

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I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles.<\/span>
\nNiccol\u00f2 Machiavelli<\/span><\/p>\n

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.<\/span>
\nLeo Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.<\/span>
\nPhilippus A. Paracelsus<\/span><\/p>\n

Without literature, life is hell.<\/span>
\nCharles Bukowski<\/span><\/p>\n

Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.<\/span>
\nHermann Hesse<\/span><\/p>\n

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we tried to restrain it. <\/span>
\nGiacomo Casanova<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cClassic\u201d: A book which people praise and don’t read.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The thing about smart people is they sound like crazy people to stupid people.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

I hate victims who respect their executioners.<\/span>
\nJean-Paul Sartre<\/span><\/p>\n

All passions are good when one masters them; all are bad when one is a slave to them. <\/span>
\nJean-Jacques Rousseau<\/span><\/p>\n

Tolerance become a crime when applied to evil.<\/span>
\nThomas Mann<\/span><\/p>\n

To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.<\/span>
\nMiyamoto Musashi<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on. <\/span>
\nMarilyn Monroe<\/span><\/p>\n

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.<\/span>
\nHeraclitus<\/span><\/p>\n

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. <\/span>
\nNiccol\u00f2 Machiavelli<\/span><\/p>\n

The paradox is a telescope for the stars and a microscope for the minimal bodies.<\/span>
\nL\u00e8on Bloy<\/span><\/p>\n

There must be someone who keeps pushing the boundaries of the ridiculous.<\/span>
\nEnnio Flaiano<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is not worth living unless it is lived for someone else.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Before the internet we thought that stupidity was due to a lack of information. Today we know it wasn’t for that.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

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Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.<\/span>
\nHenry James<\/span><\/p>\n

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.<\/span>
\nJonathan Swift<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.<\/span>
\nJohn Steinbeck<\/span><\/p>\n

He who considers disease results to be the disease itself, and expects to do away with these as diseases, is insane. It is an insanity in medicine, an insanity that has grown out of the milder forms of mental disorder in science, crazy whims.<\/span>
\nJames Tyler Kent<\/span><\/p>\n

I know a cure for everything. Salt water […] in one form or another, sweat, tears or the salt sea.<\/span>
\nKaren Blixen<\/span><\/p>\n

I am a human being, I think that nothing is alien to me. (Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.)<\/span>
\nTerenzio<\/span><\/p>\n

One-quarter of what you eat keeps you alive. The other three-quarters keeps your doctors alive.<\/span>
\nAncient Egyptian proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

POLITICS is the ONLY profession where you can LIE, CHEAT, and STEAL, and still be respected.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.<\/span>
\nMargaret Atwood<\/span><\/p>\n

Born this way, in a place where the masses turn idiots into successful heroes.<\/span>
\nCharles Bukowski<\/span><\/p>\n

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.<\/span>
\nLudwig Wittgenstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

The reward of sin is death? That\u2019s hard. Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis veritas. If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there\u2019s no truth in us.<\/span>
\nChristopher Marlowe<\/span><\/p>\n

All my life to find the center, and in the end the circumference explodes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nCarl Willliam Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Teach someone to be a writer and he will be poor for the rest of his life.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s no coming to conciousness without pain.<\/span>
\nCarl Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

My Crown is in my heart, not on my head: Not deck’d with Diamonds, and Indian stones: Nor to be seen: my Crown is call’d Content, A Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

The intelligent man solves problems. The wise man avoids them. The stupid man creates them. And if the world is full of problems, there must be a reason.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.<\/span>
\nSoren Kierkegaard<\/span><\/p>\n

If you see everything gray in front of you, move the elephant.<\/span>
\nIndian proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

A wise man never knows all. Only fools know everything.<\/span>
\nAfrican proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

I am a foe to tyrants, and my country’s friend.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Commitment is an act, not a word.<\/span>
\nJean-Paul Sartre<\/span><\/p>\n

I have great faith in fools, self-confidence, my friends will call it.<\/span>
\nEdgar Allan Poe<\/span><\/p>\n

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.<\/span>
\nLudwig von Mises<\/span><\/p>\n

Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.<\/span>
\nFrank Zappa<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not be so open-minded that your brain falls out.<\/span>
\nG.K. Chesterton<\/span><\/p>\n

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.<\/span>
\nHenry David Thoreau<\/span><\/p>\n

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

If they are wise, do not quarrel with them; if they are fools, ignore them.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.<\/span>
\nAnton Chekhov<\/span><\/p>\n

The ability to sit and do nothing when there is no trade is a skill.<\/span>
\nGolden rule<\/span><\/p>\n

So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

Focus on effort, not results.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

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The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.<\/span>
\nNoam Chomsky<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. <\/span>
\nVirginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks. <\/span>
\nSappho<\/span><\/p>\n

I have turned my life upside down. Before I was sad and depressed; now I am depressed and sad. <\/span>
\nDavid Frost<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.<\/span>
\nWoody Allen<\/span><\/p>\n

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.<\/span>
\nAmbrose Bierce<\/span><\/p>\n

Agree or Disagree? It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.<\/span>
\nItalo Calvino<\/span><\/p>\n

The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.<\/span>
\nLaurence Sterne<\/span><\/p>\n

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.<\/span>
\nJonathan Swift<\/span><\/p>\n

In politics, virtues should be flaunted, never put to the test.<\/span>
\nRoberto Gervaso<\/span><\/p>\n

What does not deserve the name of generosity is nothing more than one of the many forms of ostentation and pomp.<\/span>
\nArturo Graf<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is a pill that no one can swallow unless it is golden.<\/span>
\nSamuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

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