You can take away a man’s gods, but only to give him others in return.
—Carl Jung
There are people who take upon themselves the right to decide for others what their relationship to God and the world should be, and there are people—the vast majority—who give this right to others and blindly believe what they say. Both are equally guilty and pathetic.
—Leo Tolstoy
If you wish to control others you must first control yourself.
—Miyamoto Musashi
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
—Voltaire
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
—George Orwell
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
—Albert Einstein
In order to be happy, you must always think of others, especially when you’re speaking to someone.
—Leo Tolstoy
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
—Pablo Picasso
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.
—Carl Jung
While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others.
—Thomas Aquinas
I pray daily, that I may know his will more perfectly, not only that I may do it myself, but that I may teach it to others.
—George Whitefield
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
He that will sorely revenge the least opposition that is or shall be made to him by others, was content to undergo any thing, all things, for believers.
—John Owen
In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.
—Julius Caesar
The kinder and more rational a person is, the more he recognizes himself in others. A stupid, unkind person thinks that all other people are alien to him. A wise and kind person knows that the most valuable thing within him is also within every other person.
—Leo Tolstoy
Above all, don’t lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
And having no respect he ceases to love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Above all, don’t lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
And having no respect he ceases to love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
—Georg Hegel
There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Never listen to people who speak badly of others and good of you.
—Leo Tolstoy
“Shall I not tell to others what the grace of God has done for me? Shall I not lay hold of every poor sinner’s hand, and say, Look you to Christ, and you also shall be saved, even as I was?”
Live so that it doesn’t matter to you whether you conceal or reveal your acts to others.
—Leo Tolstoy
Which death is preferably to every other? ‘The unexpected’.
—Julius Caesar
What was there in you and in me, that should move GOD to choose us before others? Was there any fitness foreseen in us, except a fitness for damnation? I believe not.
—George Whitefield
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
—Sigmund Freud
The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.
—Laozi
Let others grumble that they see no fairies nor muses, I rejoice that my eyes see the erect eternal world…without blur or halo.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
—Carl Jung
“I would earnestly urge all Christian workers to be sure to get some time alone for the prayerful study of the Word. The more of such time that you can get, the better will it be both for yourself and for others.”
– Charles Spurgeon
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
—Blaise Pascal