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100 sensational quotes and aphorisms, a selection of 100 great maxims by famous authors, philosophers and artists through the centuries to help everyone thinking deeply while improving creativity, edited for the World of English blog by\u00a0Carl William Brown<\/a>, a sincere literary avenger. (Find out more about him on Amazon).<\/span><\/p>\n

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.<\/span>
\nNapoleon Bonaparte<\/span><\/p>\n

Stupidity is the same as evil if not judge by the results.<\/span>
\nMargaret Atwood<\/span><\/p>\n

All great literature is one of two stories ; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.<\/span>
\nLeo Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.<\/span>
\nSpinoza<\/span><\/p>\n

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue; it is an intellectual crime.<\/span>
\nImre Lakatos<\/span><\/p>\n

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.<\/span>
\nT.S. Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

Philosophy is the art of thinking, especially when you can’t have success, when you can’t change the world, when you have to face death. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.<\/span>
\nSimone Weil<\/span><\/p>\n

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

You must become an outlaw if you wish to find the truth.<\/span>
\nNietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. <\/span>
\nLeon Trotsky<\/span><\/p>\n

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.<\/span>
\nWilliam Faulkner<\/span><\/p>\n

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.<\/span>
\nWilliam E. Gladstone<\/span><\/p>\n

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.<\/span>
\nViktor Frankl<\/span><\/p>\n

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William Shakespeare Aphoristic dictionary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to reach a large audience, appeal to idiots.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. <\/span>
\nAdam Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

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

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to control it.<\/span>
\nH.L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.<\/span>
\nIsaac Asimov<\/span><\/p>\n

Ignorance, like stupidity, has always been prevalent on the planet; but it becomes disturbing when it becomes a force, expressing the “zeitgeist,” and when those who profess and propagate it are not the poor, illiterate common people, but the ruling classes.<\/span>
\nMarcello Veneziani<\/span><\/p>\n

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.<\/span>
\nClive James<\/span><\/p>\n

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. <\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.<\/span>
\nVivian Greene<\/span><\/p>\n

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.<\/span>
\nJ. W. von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.<\/span>
\nTheodore Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider. <\/span>
\nSimone de Beauvoir<\/span><\/p>\n

You cannot be wise and in love at the same time.<\/span>
\nBob Dylan<\/span><\/p>\n

Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates.<\/span>
\nTheodor Fontane<\/span><\/p>\n

A man’s age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.<\/span>
\nAntoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry<\/span><\/p>\n

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.<\/span>
\nP.G. Wodehouse<\/span><\/p>\n

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, for it requires that we should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius,<\/span><\/p>\n

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. <\/span>
\nImmanuel Kant<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.<\/span>
\nFranz Kafka<\/span><\/p>\n

The idea of God is the last trick of the Ego to survive.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

The search for God is the surest way to never meet the truth.<\/span>
\nKrishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

The God of the masses is a comfortable lie to keep them asleep.<\/span>
\nGurdjieff<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Ars<\/a>
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.<\/span>
\nLeo Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. It even lies coldly, and this lie crawls out of its mouth: \u201cI, the state, am the people.\u201d This is a lie!<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang G\u00f6the<\/span><\/p>\n

Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours. <\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest enemy of lie is not the truth, but it is the lazy mind.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and other which we practice, but seldom preach.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.<\/span>
\nEdgar Allan Poe<\/span><\/p>\n

Just as in the natural environment, overly large and voracious animals appear insipid, disgusting, and ridiculous, so in human societies, overly wealthy, selfish, and vain individuals appear miserable, deplorable, and pitiable.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Truth is not defined by authority, tradition, or numbers – but by reason and evidence.<\/span>
\nNicolaus Copernicus<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to reach a large audience, appeal to idiots.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can’t learn in Berlin except the German language.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.<\/span>
\nStephen King<\/span><\/p>\n

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.<\/span>
\nHermann Hesse<\/span><\/p>\n

Few men think; yet all have opinions.<\/span>
\nGeorge Berkeley<\/span><\/p>\n

An intellectual is a person who has found a thing that is more interesting than sex.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

He who is everywhere, is nowhere.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.<\/span>
\nLeo Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.<\/span>
\nRabindranath Tagore<\/span><\/p>\n

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

You must continuously learn and study. Seneca also says, “Leisure without study is death – a tomb for the living person.”<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Wisdom comes haphazard to no man.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

Friends often become thieves of our time.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Applied<\/a>
Applied Daimonology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity, and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them.<\/span>
\nDesiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam.<\/span><\/p>\n

If a man is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we were to excuse a bad man on the same grounds we would be laughed at.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language.\u201d<\/span>
\nNoam Chomsky<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, yes-you will give him the earth-because you love him. Love him too much for safety or for happiness. But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.<\/span>
\nAgatha Christie<\/span><\/p>\n

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

The German language is a dozen fragments of words flung into an octagonal cylinder – take a good look at them before you begin to turn the machine, for you will never see them in their simplicity again – never never any more.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The human species, the monotonous refrain of stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison.<\/span>
\nThomas Merton<\/span><\/p>\n

And he got used to getting rid of everything, so as to have nothing left to lose.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

The fear of death is worse than death itself.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing eases suffering like human touch.<\/span>
\nBobby Fischer<\/span><\/p>\n

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.<\/span>
\nHeraclitus<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.<\/span>
\nS\u00f8ren Kierkegaard<\/span><\/p>\n

Sound is the counterpart of silence, we need both of them, at least till we live.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.<\/span>
\nKhalil Gibran<\/span><\/p>\n

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. <\/span>
\nRen\u00e9 Descartes<\/span><\/p>\n

I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. <\/span>
\nFyodor Dostoevsky<\/span><\/p>\n

They say that the monkey is so intelligent that it does not speak so as not to be made to work.<\/span>
\nRen\u00e9 Descartes<\/span><\/p>\n

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. <\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

First rule: never trust anyone; second rule: be aware that stupidity rules the world; third rule: train yourself in order to teach to fight stupidity. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

When a multitude exercises authority, it is even more cruel than tyrants.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

The doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist.<\/span>
\nHerman Hesse<\/span><\/p>\n

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.<\/span>
\nJack London<\/span><\/p>\n

To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.<\/span>
\nTacitus<\/span><\/p>\n

The world is beautiful, but it has a defect called man.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Today’s audiences are addicted to banality.<\/span>
\nDario Fo<\/span><\/p>\n

The universe is one, dynamic, holistic, and wants to know itself.<\/span>
\nFederico Faggin<\/span><\/p>\n

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.<\/span>
\nThomas Paine<\/span><\/p>\n

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.<\/span>
\nCicero<\/span><\/p>\n

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense – he is always satisfied with himself. <\/span>
\nNapoleon I of France<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.<\/span>
\nNoam Chomsky<\/span><\/p>\n

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