
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”
“Myths which are believed in tend to become true.”
“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
Non fare niente è meglio che essere occupati a non fare niente.
“The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.”
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.”
“I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?”
“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”
“You have to believe in yourself.”
“It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.”
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.”
“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”
“I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.”
“Love and friendship exclude each other.”
“All know the way; few actually walk it.”
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
“Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.”
“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”
“We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.”
“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
“Life consists of small things. They become great if you love.”
“Above all, do not forget your duty to love yourself.”
“Mistake is something that happens to everyone in life.”
Origine: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58354436-one-fourth-journey-of-rvalllplay?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=CHbCZWH9VO&rank=1
“Our dedication to good actions as human beings is what most nourishes our souls”
Origine: Posted on @angelovulpini, Instagram (June 15, 2019)
“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth.”
Please read this article for more information: Did Camus ever say “Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”? | Literature Stack Exchange https://literature.stackexchange.com/q/16662/1015
Misattributed
“Behold, I am Jesus Christ. I am the Father and the Son.”
The Book of Mormon, Ether 3:14. Jesus is both the Father and the Son.
The Book of Mormon and LDS Scripture, The Book of Mormon (1830)
“The beauty of empathy is that it doesn’t demand that you agree with the other person’s ideas.”
“You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
Culture
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Variante: You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”
“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
Variante: We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them
As quoted in Out of the Blue: Delight Comes Into Our Lives (1996) by Mark Victor Hansen, Barbara Nichols, and Patty Hansen, p. 85
“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”
Quante volte ho giaciuto sotto la pioggia, al riparo di un tetto sconosciuto, pensando a casa.
As I Lay Dying (1930)
Variante: Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
In allem Chaos ist Kosmos und in aller Unordnung geheime Ordnung.
http://books.google.com/books?id=hOUkAQAAIAAJ&q=%22in+allem+Chaos+ist+Kosmos+und+in+aller+Unordnung+geheime+Ordnung%22&pg=PA41#v=onepage
p. 32 http://books.google.com/books?id=Yc5PlU9MyDwC&q=%22in+all+chaos+there+is+a+cosmos+in+all+disorder+a+secret+order%22&pg=PA32#v=onepage (1981 edition)
Originally presented http://books.google.com/books?id=-5oJAAAAIAAJ&q=%22in+allem+Chaos+ist+Kosmos+und+in+aller+Unordnung+geheime+Ordnung%22&pg=PA213#v=onepage at an Eranos conference. (1935)
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1934)
“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
La base dell'ottimismo è il terrore puro.
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
Origine: The Valley of Fear
“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?”
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
Variante: I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
Origine: 1840s, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), Ch. 5
Contesto: I look upon my departure from Colonel Lloyd's plantation as one of the most interesting events of my life. It is possible, and even quite probable, that but for the mere circumstance of being removed from that plantation to Baltimore, I should have to-day, instead of being here seated by my own table, in the enjoyment of freedom and the happiness of home, writing this Narrative, been confined in the galling chains of slavery. Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity. I have ever regarded it as the first plain manifestation of that kind providence which has ever since attended me, and marked my life with so many favors. I regarded the selection of myself as being somewhat remarkable. There were a number of slave children that might have been sent from the plantation to Baltimore. There were those younger, those older, and those of the same age. I was chosen from among them all, and was the first, last, and only choice.
I may be deemed superstitions, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor. But I should be false to the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence. From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom. This good spirit was from God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise.
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
A version of this quote was published anonymously in an insurance magazine in 1908 https://books.google.com/books?id=S2JJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA375&dq=%22others+whenever+they+go%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwja94i3iaXLAhUY7mMKHW5fAGIQ6AEIJjAC#v=onepage&q=%22others%20whenever%20they%20go%22&f=false. The earliest attribution to Wilde was in 1955 https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22others+whenever+they+go%22+wilde#hl=en&tbs=cdr:1%2Ccd_min:1900%2Ccd_max:1999&tbm=bks&q=%22others+whenever+they+go+oscar+wilde+jive%22; no source in Wilde's writings has been found.
Disputed
“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
Non aveva mai capito che senso avesse fare a pezzi le persone
“Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.”
“There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.”
Origine: A Hat Full of Sky
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
“To "catch" a husband is an art; to "hold" him is a job.”
Bk. 2, part 5, Ch. 1: The Married Woman, p. 468
Origine: The Second Sex (1949)
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
Dopo un buon pranzo si può perdonare chiunque, persino i nostri parenti.
Origine: A Woman of No Importance
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
Variante: It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
“I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.”
Cerco sempre di più di essere me stesso, preoccupandomi relativamente poco se le persone approvano o disapprovano.
“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”
Origine: Lord of the Flies
“You can observe a lot by watching.”
You Can Observe a Lot by Watching: What I've Learned About Teamwork From the Yankees and Life, John Wiley & Sons, 2008, ISBN 9780470079928
Yogiisms
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
Ogni qualvolta un uomo fa una cosa completamente stupida, la fa sempre per i più nobili motivi.
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
Variante: Now... if you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spenttime working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Goodbye.
Origine: The Wee Free Men
“All good things are wild and free.”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
"As Much Truth As One Can Bear" in The New York Times Book Review (14 January 1962); republished in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (2011), edited by Randall Kenan<!-- , also quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 114 -->
Contesto: Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. … Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
Attributed in Laura Haddock (1931), Steps Upward in Personality
Misattributed
Variante: I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
Sec. 41
The Gay Science (1882)
Origine: Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest PHilosophers (1926), reprinted in Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books, 1991, ISBN 0-671-73916-6], Ch. II: Aristotle and Greek Science; part VI: Psychology and the Nature of Art: "Artistic creation, says Aristotle, springs from the formative impulse and the craving for emotional expression. Essentially the form of art is an imitation of reality; it holds the mirror up to nature. There is in man a pleasure in imitation, apparently missing in lower animals. Yet the aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance; for this, and not the external mannerism and detail, is their reality.