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100 gorgeous quotes and aphorisms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

100 gorgeous 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

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.<\/span>
\nCarl Gustav Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

Tutte le religioni. Tutto questo canto. Un solo canto. La pace sia con voi.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God\u2019s decree.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

The act of disobedience, as an act of freedom, is the beginning of reason. <\/span>
\nErich Fromm<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is quite insane. He wouldn’t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.<\/span>
\nMichel de Montaigne<\/span><\/p>\n

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect \u2026 Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.<\/span>
\nCarl Gustav Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nSonu Shamdasani<\/span><\/p>\n

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments \u2013 and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.<\/span>
\nCarl Gustav Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

There is the music of Heaven in all things.<\/span>
\nHildegard von Bingen<\/span><\/p>\n

What shall I say, O Muslims? I do not know myself; I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Zoroastrian, nor Muslim.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

An idiot with a plan can beat a genius without a plan.<\/span>
\nWarren Buffett<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.<\/span>
\nCarl Gustav Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

The development and growth of tools connected to or managed by artificial intelligence proceeds proportionally with the general imbecility of the world population.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.<\/span>
\nCicero<\/span><\/p>\n

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. \u2026 The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.<\/span>
\nCarl Gustav Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

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Top 100 great universal quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As artificial intelligence develops, natural stupidity also increases indiscriminately. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

The cyclical and repetitive essence of matter, while astonishing on the one hand, is also monotonous and boring, comical and pathetic on the other.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Hildegard, the human soul is \u2018symphonic\u2019; music is part of the profound nature.<\/span>
\nHildegard von Bingen<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, but everything is transformed, and in the process, a huge pain in the ass is created.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Socialism may begin with the best of intentions, but it always ends with the Gestapo.<\/span>
\nWinston Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n

Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

Ai bambini bisogna insegnare a pensare, non cosa pensare.<\/span>
\nMargaret Mead<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nMark Minervini<\/span><\/p>\n

Where the environment is stupid, or prejudiced, or cruel, it is a mark of merit to oppose it.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

A man is born to work, to suffer and to fight; he who doesn’t, must perish.<\/span>
\nNikola Tesla<\/span><\/p>\n

We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.<\/span>
\nDavid Clark<\/span><\/p>\n

Individual imbecility, integrating and adapting to universal stupidity, can generate a certain unconscious and fleeting satisfaction.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.<\/span>
\nDenis Diderot<\/span><\/p>\n

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.<\/span>
\nAnne Frank<\/span><\/p>\n

The historian, the futurist, the surrealist, and the nihilist move in environments that do not exist, following the trail of death and stupidity. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Mathematics is just a language, and as such, it’s conventional, arbitrary, and capable of expressing a lot of bullshit. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

But the devil was so tired that he left everything to men, who knew how to do things better than he did.<\/span>
\nLeonardo Sciascia<\/span><\/p>\n

Social life is a distraction, real intelligence thrives in isolation.<\/span>
\nNikola Tesla<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

C’\u00e8 la musica del Cielo in tutte le cose.<\/span>
\nIldegarda di Bingen<\/span><\/p>\n

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity explains so much.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a person’s estate, but in their souls.<\/span>
\nAntisthenes<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.<\/span>
\nFrancois Rabelais<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Rumi<\/a>
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Civilized man has traded a portion of his chance for happiness for a measure of security.<\/span><\/span>
\nSigmund Freud<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.<\/span>
\nWilliam Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.<\/span>
\nVirginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.<\/span>
\nJim Otto<\/span><\/p>\n

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.<\/span>
\nLudwig Wittgenstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.<\/span>
\nGene Tunney<\/span><\/p>\n

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.<\/span>
\nHenri Frederic Amiel<\/span><\/p>\n

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.<\/span>
\nHannah Arendt<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.<\/span>
\nErma Bombeck<\/span><\/p>\n

Reason is the root, through which the resonant word flourishes.<\/span>
\nHildegard von Bingen<\/span><\/p>\n

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech.<\/span>
\nHildegard von Bingen<\/span><\/p>\n

Syncretinism is the most updated keyword of the modern catholic church.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.<\/span>
\nMartin Luther King, Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who lack a certain amount of free time are cut off from many of the best things.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.<\/span>
\nAnacharsis<\/span><\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t 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.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Religions are the cradles of despotism.<\/span>
\nMarquis De Sade<\/span><\/p>\n

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.<\/span>
\nDean William R. Inge<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Osho<\/a>
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The common man with extraordinary power represents the greatest danger to humanity, not the demon or the sadist.<\/span>
\nErich Fromm<\/span><\/p>\n

I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day\u2026<\/span>
\nLord Byron<\/span><\/p>\n

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.<\/span>
\nCarl Gustav Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won’t be offended.<\/span>
\nMorgan Freeman<\/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

Religion is the opium of the masses.<\/span>
\nKarl Marx<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion: a daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.<\/span>
\nAmbrose Bierce<\/span><\/p>\n

A mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

A person who lives in a sort of sleep can never be intelligent \u2013 and awareness is the purest flame of intelligence.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

El Estado es una banda de ladrones, compuesta por los individuos m\u00e1s inmorales, codiciosos y sin escr\u00fapulos de cada sociedad.<\/span>
\nMurray Rothbard<\/span><\/p>\n

The beautiful is nothing but the terrible at its beginning (Denn das Sch\u00f6ne ist nichts \/ als des Schrecklichen Anfang.<\/span>
\nRainer Maria Rilke<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.<\/span>
\nThomas Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.<\/span>
\nAristophanes<\/span><\/p>\n

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

I have found God, but he is insufficient.<\/span>
\nHenry Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

El Estado es peor que una mafia. Es m\u00e1s grande, m\u00e1s criminal y adem\u00e1s tiene escuelas. Una mafia normal te roba y te deja en paz.<\/span>
\nMiguel Anxo Bastos<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is man’s twisted thinking, out of which temples are erected to realize it.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

Unless a person is stupid he cannot be a politician. It is not that the politicians are stupid \u2013 in fact, only stupid people are attracted towards politics.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

Human biological weakness is the condition of human culture. <\/span>
\nErich Fromm<\/span><\/p>\n

The word \u2018happy\u2019 would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.<\/span>
\nCarl Gustav Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.<\/span>
\nThomas Jefferson<\/span><\/p>\n

To keep the body in good health is a duty\u2026 otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.<\/span>
\nBuddha<\/span><\/p>\n

Much learning does not teach understanding.<\/span>
\nHeraclitus<\/span><\/p>\n

God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.<\/span>
\nMarcus T. Cicero<\/span><\/p>\n

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.<\/span>
\nAesop<\/span><\/p>\n

The first wealth is health.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.<\/span>
\nCarl Gustav Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

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

The only truly rich are those who desire no more than they already possess.<\/span>
\nErich Fromm<\/span><\/p>\n

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