To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life.
—Vincent Van Gogh
“Doctrines in the head, without holiness in the life, are of no service.”
Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.
—Seneca
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
—Georg Hegel
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
—Plato
To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill.
To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
—Sun Tzu
So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
—John Milton
One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.
—Sun Tzu
Freethinkers use their minds without prejudice and fear to understand things that clash with their own customs or beliefs. It’s rare but essential.
—Leo Tolstoy
In our age the greatest and most harmful crimes aren’t those that are committed occasionally, but those that are committed every day without being recognized as crimes.
—Leo Tolstoy
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights. – C.S. Lewis
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill.
To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
—Sun Tzu
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
—Immanuel Kant
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
—Søren Kierkegaard
One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
—Søren Kierkegaard
It is impossible to exist without passion
—Søren Kierkegaard
For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
—Thomas Jefferson
All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
—Thomas Jefferson
I cannot live without books.
—Thomas Jefferson
Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.
—Aristotle
Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help.
—Miyamoto Musashi
You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures.
—Thomas Aquinas
Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
—Carl Jung