Famous Quotes

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Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003:

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

C.G. Jung:

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9:

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.

Sun Tzu:

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win.

Voltaire:

The superfluous is very necessary.

Harry S. Truman:

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Benjamin Franklin:

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People:

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Ruth Gordon:

Never give up and never face the facts.

E. S. Dallas:

It is good for a man to eat thistles and to remember that he is an ass.

Barbara Stanwyck:

Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Homer, The Iliad:

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales:

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

John Steinbeck:

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.