There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
—Vincent Van Gogh
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
—Henry David Thoreau
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.
—Blaise Pascal
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
—Thomas Jefferson
There’s nothing wrong with loving your family or your nation, and this happens with everyone. But it’s only harmless as long as you do no evil to others because of your love for your family or nation.
—Leo Tolstoy
Christ’s humiliation and sufferings are a most complete and sufficient meritorious cause of our salvation, to which nothing can be added to make it more apt, and able to procure our salvation, than it already is.
—John Flavel
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
I know CHRIST is all in all. Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till GOD worketh in him to will and to do after his good pleasure.
—George Whitefield
One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist.. Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
—Stephen Hawking
Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
—Heraclitus
But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
—Ernest Hemingway
When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“[…]there is nothing like going to the Lord Jesus Christ himself as to the well-head of doctrine, and saying to him, Master, what dost thou teach? What can I learn from thee?”
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
—Socrates
Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life has no meaning a priori.. It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
—Georg Hegel
Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
—Carl Jung
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.. We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
—Blaise Pascal
All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.
—Charles Dickens
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
—Henry Ford
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
—Charles Dickens
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple
—Jean-Paul Sartre