Martin Svoboda

Autore verificato @quick, membro dal 04 Aprile 2011
Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“Shadow in the flame. The flame is not so bright to itself as to those on whom it shines: so too the wise man.”

Friedrich Nietzsche libro Umano, troppo umano

Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 570
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation

Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“Destination and paths. Many people are obstinate about the path once it is taken, few people about the destination.”

Friedrich Nietzsche libro Umano, troppo umano

Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 494
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka photo
Mehmed II photo

“In order to see the boundaries of the probabilities, need to try impossible.”

Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan

During the fall of Constantinople, when he said that the ships would pass by land.

Laozi photo

“Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…

Also: &quot;Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner&quot; <br class="br">Also: &quot;If you care what people think, you will always be their prisoner&quot; <br class="br">Appears in Stephen Mitchell&#x27;s rendering into English http://terebess.hu/english/tao/mitchell.html#Kap09 of Tao Te Ching chapter 9; but this is an interpretation of Mitchell&#x27;s which does not appear in the original text or other recognized English translations. Repeated without attribution in Gilliland, Hide Your Goat https://books.google.com/books?id=ziJQdUzCgTIC&amp;pg=PT98&amp;dq=Care+what+other+think+%22you+will+always+be%22+their+prisoner&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0CDQQ6AEwBGoVChMIpsbNzO69yAIVCU2ICh0mXwIE#v=onepage&amp;q=Care%20what%20other%20think%20%22you%20will%20always%20be%22%20their%20prisoner&amp;f=false, a positive thinking book published in 2013. <br class="br">Misattributed

Henry Kissinger photo
Walter Benjamin photo

“History is written by the victors.”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)

Emil M. Cioran photo

“Man is fulfilled only when he ceases to be man.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

Emil M. Cioran photo
Michel Foucault photo

“Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.”

Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher

Origine: "The Subject and Power" (1982), p. 785

Simone de Beauvoir photo

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

Simone de Beauvoir photo
Simone de Beauvoir photo

“To "catch" a husband is an art; to "hold" him is a job.”

Simone de Beauvoir libro Il secondo sesso

Bk. 2, part 5, Ch. 1: The Married Woman, p. 468
Origine: The Second Sex (1949)

Luís de Camões photo

“Time changes, and our desires change. What we
believe—even what we are—is ever-
changing. The world is change, which forever
takes on new qualities.”

Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet

Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition (2008), ed. William Baer, p. 70
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as vontades

Anaïs Nin photo

“Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

As quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126
Variante: Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Jean Paul Sartre photo

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

No Exit (1944)
Variante: A man is what he wills himself to be.
Origine: Existentialism and Human Emotions

Jean Paul Sartre photo

“We are our choices.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …