One should use common words to say uncommon things.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not ‘one thing in my life’ – not even the most important – because my life no longer belongs to me because…you are always me.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she endeavoured to form, yet did not bring about, because of the conflict of her forms with one another
—Arthur Schopenhauer
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
—Søren Kierkegaard
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
—Søren Kierkegaard
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
—Søren Kierkegaard
It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
—Søren Kierkegaard
To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Take things always by their smooth handle.
—Thomas Jefferson
Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
—Thomas Jefferson
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
—Aristotle
“Let us believe great things from the work of Christ by his Spirit in the midst of his people’s hearts, and we shall not be disappointed.”
From one thing, know ten thousand things
—Miyamoto Musashi
The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy’s useful actions but allow his useless actions.
—Miyamoto Musashi
To know ten thousand things, know one well.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
—Miyamoto Musashi
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
—Michelangelo
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.
—Carl Jung
Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.
—Stephen Hawking
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
—Aristotle
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
—Charlie Chaplin
The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done.
—Laozi
In all things have no preferences.
—Miyamoto Musashi
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible.
God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
—Oscar Wilde