{"id":163215,"date":"2025-11-10T13:45:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/?p=163215"},"modified":"2025-11-10T20:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:18:48","slug":"100-fantastic-quotes-and-aphorisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/100-fantastic-quotes-and-aphorisms\/","title":{"rendered":"100 fantastic quotes and aphorisms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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100 fantastic quotes and aphorisms by great and famous authors and writers 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

We are all born mad. Some have the fortune to remain so.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown Via Ionesco<\/span><\/p>\n

The primary quality of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new boundaries.<\/span>
\nArthur Koestler<\/span><\/p>\n

The meaning is a stone in the mouth of the signifier.<\/span>
\nJacques Lacan<\/span><\/p>\n

My aphorisms are certainly a richer form of literature than the Bible itself, but you’ll see how long it will take before they’re translated into 1,400 languages.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The only intelligent tactical response to life\u2019s horror is to laugh defiantly at it.<\/span>
\nS\u00f8ren Kierkegaard<\/span><\/p>\n

The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture on the verge of descending into barbarism.<\/span>
\nHannah Arendt<\/span><\/p>\n

The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.<\/span>
\nSimone de Beauvoir<\/span><\/p>\n

The origin of philosophy is due to the intellectual wonder and emotional disgust one feels when one pauses to observe the horrible imbecility of humanity. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.<\/span>
\nGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel<\/span><\/p>\n

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge but the refusal to acquire it.<\/span>
\nKarl R. Popper<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t let the bastards grind you down.<\/span>
\nMargaret Atwood<\/span><\/p>\n

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.<\/span>
\nRabindranath Tagore<\/span><\/p>\n

Aristotle said that choice, not chance, determines your destiny; if it weren’t that most of the times choices are directed mainly by chance.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

And it is the thought of death that ultimately helps us to go on living. <\/span>
\nUmberto Saba<\/span><\/p>\n

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.<\/span>
\nRabindranath Tagore<\/span><\/p>\n

Per gli amanti dei ponti. Il pi\u00f9 grande ponte che esiste in Italia \u00e8 quello tra la stupidit\u00e0 degli elettori e l’imbecillit\u00e0 degli eletti. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

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

What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.<\/span>
\nIsaac Newton<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry.<\/span>
\nAnton Chekhov<\/span><\/p>\n

My brain tries to cheat time and itself through memory, which moves between the spaces of places from my past.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

When the market deviates from your analysis, you have to cut losses without fuss or emotions.<\/span>
\nAlexander Elder<\/span><\/p>\n

A writer is always unwelcome at the family table. Because we notice things. And then we use them.<\/span>
\nElizabeth Hardwick<\/span><\/p>\n

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Most of us are mediocre. Even the most talented are mediocre because their talent is partial, limited, narrow. A gift doesn’t lift you out of mediocrity. <\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.<\/span>
\nEdmund Spenser<\/span><\/p>\n

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.<\/span>
\nRobert Heinlein<\/span><\/p>\n

To old people, all young people are idiots except their own grandchildren. They are geniuses.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius requires solitude; that is the secret of inventiveness.<\/span>
\nNikola Tesla<\/span><\/p>\n

None proclaim their innocence so loudly as the guilty.<\/span>
\nSamuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth.<\/span>
\nClifford D. Simak<\/span><\/p>\n

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

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.<\/span>
\nSaadi<\/span><\/p>\n

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. <\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

The real philosopher and artist must necessarily be stateless, citizen of the world, considering history as a bunch of shitty facts and power as the emblem of human imbecility. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.<\/span>
\nFyodor Dostoevsky<\/span><\/p>\n

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.<\/span>
\nEdgar Allan Poe<\/span><\/p>\n

The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.<\/span>
\nGeorg Friedrich Hegel<\/span><\/p>\n

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

The ruling class fears education because it makes obedience impossible.<\/span>
\nKarl Marx<\/span><\/p>\n

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.<\/span>
\nJerome D Salinger<\/span><\/p>\n

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

A good aphorism should not only highlight obvious things, even if expressed in an original way, but also evoke solutions, though unpleasant for human stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.<\/span>
\nRichard P. Feynman<\/span><\/p>\n

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.<\/span>
\nCarl Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

See, people with power understand exactly one thing – violence.<\/span>
\nNoam Chomsky<\/span><\/p>\n

I was educated once – it took me years to get over it.<\/span>
\nSamuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/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

Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.<\/span>
\nJoyce Meyer<\/span><\/p>\n

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.<\/span>
\nEdmund Burke<\/span><\/p>\n

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.<\/span>
\nSojourner Truth<\/span><\/p>\n

It is dangerous to be right in matters about which the established authorities are wrong.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

The real philosopher and artist must necessarily be stateless, citizen of the world, considering history as a bunch of shitty facts and power as the emblem of human imbecility.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

He who thinks does not believe, he who believes does not think. <\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something. <\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

De gustibus non disputandum est utque omnia res in principia parva sunt.<\/span><\/p>\n

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.<\/span>
\nJohn Burroughs<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m only responsible for what I say, not for what you understand.<\/span>
\nJohn Wayne<\/span><\/p>\n

A fool is known by his speech, and a wise man by his silence.<\/span>
\nPythagoras<\/span><\/p>\n

To be alone is the fate of all great minds.<\/span>
\nArthur Shopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.<\/span>
\nJohann W Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.<\/span>
\nRene Descartes<\/span><\/p>\n

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.<\/span>
\nRay Bradbury<\/span><\/p>\n

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

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.<\/span>
\nKurt Vonnegut<\/span><\/p>\n

Some physicists say that time doesn’t exist, and I can agree with that; but then remove it from your banal formulas, which in any case won’t save you from the universal stupid entropy.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.<\/span>
\nJohannes Kepler<\/span><\/p>\n

Suffering comes from our view of things, not from the things themselves.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.<\/span>
\nJohannes Kepler<\/span><\/p>\n

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured.<\/span>
\nAnton Chekhov<\/span><\/p>\n

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.<\/span>
\nFranz Kafka<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is a catastrophe of consciousness.<\/span>
\nEmil Cioran<\/span><\/p>\n

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.<\/span>
\nMarshall McLuhan<\/span><\/p>\n

La violenza \u00e8 l’ultimo rifugio degli incapaci.<\/span>
\nIsaac Asimov<\/span><\/p>\n

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order, for meaning.<\/span>
\nArthur Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.”<\/span>
\nLudwig Wittgenstein<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are going through hell, keep going.<\/span>
\nWinston Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n

The aim of war is not to kill the enemy, but to destroy his will to fight.<\/span>
\nGeneral Sir Frank Kitson<\/span><\/p>\n

A true warrior fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.<\/span>
\nG.K. Chesterton<\/span><\/p>\n

The essence of the Navy, its very soul, is that it is always ready for war.<\/span>
\nAdmiral Sir John Fisher<\/span><\/p>\n

The enemy is not beaten until he thinks he is.<\/span>
\nField Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck<\/span><\/p>\n

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished, unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.<\/span>
\nErnest Hemingway<\/span><\/p>\n

The greater the outward show, the greater the inward poverty.<\/span>
\nJ. Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing can be more hopeless than a nation of disillusioned bigots, who have lost the capacity to be rational, and have no longer any outlet but despair for their irrationality. <\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.<\/span>
\nIsaac Asimov<\/span><\/p>\n

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t hate people. I just feel better when they aren’t around.<\/span>
\nCharles Bukowski<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.<\/span>
\nVirginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.<\/span>
\nEdgar Allan Poe<\/span><\/p>\n

Behind every sentence lies a storm trying to make sense of itself. Writing isn\u2019t just words on paper, it\u2019s chaos learning to breathe.<\/span><\/p>\n

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. <\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.<\/span>
\nImmanuel Kant<\/span><\/p>\n

I know nothing more stupid and indeed vulgar than wanting to be right.<\/span>
\nPaul Val\u00e9ry<\/span><\/p>\n

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. <\/span>
\nRichard Branson<\/span><\/p>\n

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