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Franz Kafka photo
C.G. Jung photo

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

Variante: Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Franz Kafka photo
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo
Daisaku Ikeda photo

“With love and patience, nothing is impossible.”
Con amore e pazienza, niente è impossibile. 

Daisaku Ikeda (1928) Japanese writer
Robert Fulghum photo

“We can do no great things; only small things with great love.(mother Teresa)”

Robert Fulghum libro All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Origine: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Terry Pratchett photo
Gustave Flaubert photo
Oscar Wilde photo

“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”

Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto

Cecily, Act II
Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Albert Einstein photo

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variante: If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

John Ruskin photo
Guy De Maupassant photo

“A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.”
Un bacio legale non potrà mai valere un bacio rubato.

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

"A Wife's Confession"

Galileo Galilei photo

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer

As quoted in Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work (1999) by Melissa Giovagnoli
Attributed

Oscar Wilde photo

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Variante: I am not young enough to know everything.

Frederick Douglass photo

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

Variante: Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Ernest Hemingway photo

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

From a set of "rules for life" sent to publisher Charles Scribner IV; quoted in Scribner's memoir In the Company of Writers (New York: Scribner, 1991), p. 64 https://books.google.com/books?id=yYdHGtlgIsYC&pg=PA64&dq=hemingway+%22rules+for+life%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-zvyfgNDMAhUJ_mMKHU6zDrYQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=%20%22rules%20for%20life%22&f=false

Maya Angelou photo

“Let nothing dim the light that shines from within”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Variante: Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“Art is the proper task of life.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Mark Twain photo

“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Variante: I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

John Lennon photo

“How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Lyrics, Imagine (1971 album)
Variante: How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
"How?" (song)

Abraham Lincoln photo

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
La miglior cosa del futuro è che arriva un giorno alla volta.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Timothy Leary photo

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

Timothy Leary (1920–1996) American psychologist

As quoted in Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1987) by Robert Byrne, #40

Heinrich Heine frase: “When words leave off, music begins.”
Heinrich Heine photo

“When words leave off, music begins.”

Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic

As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 343

Jim Morrison photo
Jane Austen photo

“Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”
Mary desiderava dire qualcosa che fosse molto compassionevole, ma non ne era capace.

Jane Austen libro Orgoglio e pregiudizio

Origine: Pride and Prejudice

Aristotle photo

“Happiness depends upon ourselves”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

An interpretative gloss of Aristotle's position in Nicomachean Ethics book 1 section 9, tacitly inserted by J. A. K. Thomson in his English translation The Ethics of Aristotle (1955). The original Greek at Book I 1099b.29 http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=GreekFeb2011&getid=0&query=Arist.%20Eth.%20Nic.%201099b.25, reads ὁμολογούμενα δὲ ταῦτ’ ἂν εἴη καὶ τοῖς ἐν ἀρχῇ, which W. D. Ross translates fairly literally as [a]nd this will be found to agree with what we said at the outset. Thomson's much freer translation renders the same passage thus: [t]he conclusion that happiness depends upon ourselves is in harmony with what I said in the first of these lectures; the words "that happiness depends upon ourselves" were added by Thomson to clarify what "the conclusion" is, but they do not appear in the original Greek of Aristotle. Rackham's earlier English translation added a similar gloss, but averted confusion by confining it to a footnote.
Disputed
Variante: Happiness depends upon ourselves
Origine: See http://www.mikrosapoplous.gr/aristotle/nicom1b.htm#I9 for the original Greek and Ross's translation; Thomson's translation can be viewed on Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=9SFrNWmO654C&dq=%22happiness+depends+upon+ourselves%22+aristotle&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22happiness+depends+upon+ourselves%22+.
Origine: Rackham's translation of this passage is available here http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0054%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D9%3Asection%3D8

Henry David Thoreau photo

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
Leggi per primi i libri migliori: potresti non avere l'occasione di leggerli tutti.

Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Origine: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Leonardo Da Vinci photo

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

Variante: Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Oscar Wilde photo

“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”

Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto

Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
Variante: The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated
Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest
Contesto: The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

Terry Pratchett photo
Terry Pratchett photo

“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Origine: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Mark Twain photo

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”

Mark Twain libro The Innocents Abroad

Origine: The Innocents Abroad (1869), Ch. 7

George Bernard Shaw photo
Alfred North Whitehead photo

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”

Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher

1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)

Mark Twain photo

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
Dio ha creato la guerra affinché gli americani imparassero la geografia.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Walter Benjamin photo

“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)
Oscar Wilde frase: “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
Oscar Wilde photo

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”

Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray

Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Mark Twain photo
William Faulkner photo

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
Data la scelta tra l'esperienza del dolore e il nulla, io sceglierei il dolore.

William Faulkner libro If I Forget Thee

Origine: The Wild Palms

Oscar Wilde photo
Jonathan Safran Foer photo

“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”

Jonathan Safran Foer libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino

Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 309

Marcus Aurelius photo

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…”
Quando ti alzi al mattino pensa a quale privilegio sia essere vivi, pensare, gioire, amare …

Marcus Aurelius libro Meditations

Variante: When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive-to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Origine: Meditations

Terry Pratchett photo

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”

Terry Pratchett libro I Shall Wear Midnight

Variante: And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
Origine: I Shall Wear Midnight

Colette photo
George Gordon Byron photo

“Friendship is Love without wings.”
L'amicizia è Amore senza le sue ali.

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

L'Amitié est l'Amour sans Ailes, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Jonathan Safran Foer photo

“There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”

Jonathan Safran Foer libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino

Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Emily Brontë photo

“I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.”

Emily Brontë libro Cime tempestose

Origine: Wuthering Heights

Mark Twain photo

“Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you opportunity to commit more.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle Johnson

Terry Pratchett photo
Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Henry David Thoreau photo

“And the cost of a thing it will be remembered as the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.”

Henry David Thoreau libro Walden ovvero Vita nei boschi

After December 6, 1845
Journals (1838-1859)
Origine: Walden

Christopher Morley photo

“There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

Christopher Morley Where the Blue Begins

Where the Blue Begins (1922)

Mark Twain photo

“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Origine: Notebook

George Gordon Byron photo

“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
Quelli che non vogliono ragionare, sono bigotti, quelli che non possono, sono degli sciocchi, e quelli che non osano, sono degli schiavi.

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Terry Pratchett photo

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Origine: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Eckhart Tolle photo

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Variante: Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life
Origine: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

John Muir photo

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

These are paraphrases of Muir's quote from My First Summer in the Sierra (1911) - the actual quote is listed above: "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." See Sierra Club explanation http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/misquotes.aspx.
Misattributed
Variante: Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.
Variante: When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.

Arthur Conan Doyle photo
John Lennon photo
Ernest Hemingway photo

“All thinking men are atheists.”
Tutti gli uomini che pensano sono atei.

Ernest Hemingway libro Addio alle armi

Origine: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 2

André Breton photo

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
Il mio desiderio è che tu possa essere amato fino alla follia.

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

Origine: What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

Milan Kundera photo
Charles Bukowski photo

“Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.”
Ovviamente è possibile amare un essere umano, se non lo si conosce abbastanza bene.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Albert Einstein photo

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variante: It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Zig Ziglar photo

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
Ovviamente la motivazione non è permanente. Ma poi, nemmeno i bagni lo sono; ma sono qualcosa che dovresti fare regolarmente.

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

Origine: Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

Benjamin Disraeli photo

“There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Attributed to Disraeli by Mark Twain in "Chapters from My Autobiography — XX", North American Review No. DCXVIII (JULY 5, 1907) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19987. His attribution is considered unreliable, and the actual origin is uncertain, with one of the earliest known publications of such a phrase being that of Leonard H. Courtney: see Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Misattributed

Gabriel García Márquez photo

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”

Gabriel García Márquez libro L'amore ai tempi del colera

Variante: .. the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and [that] thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past
Origine: Love in the Time of Cholera

Oscar Wilde photo
Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Variante: Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Origine: Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices on Resistance, Reform, and Renewal an African American Anthology

Bruce Lee photo

“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
John Steinbeck photo

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
Tutte le cose grandi e preziose sono sole.

John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

Angelina Jolie photo
Louisa May Alcott photo
Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
George Sand photo

“Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.”

George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin

Origine: Letters Of George Sand

Sören Kierkegaard photo
Charles Bukowski photo

“The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Origine: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

Jack Kerouac photo

“Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.”

Jack Kerouac libro I vagabondi del Dharma

Some of the Dharma (1997)
Origine: Sometimes paraphrased as "One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple" or "Someday I will find the right words … ", and sometimes misattributed to The Dharma Bums rather than to Some of the Dharma.

Friedrich Nietzsche photo
Robert Fulghum photo

“It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.”

Robert Fulghum libro All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Origine: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Bertrand Russell photo

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
Tre passioni, semplici ma irresistibili, hanno governato la mia vita: la sete d'amore, la ricerca della conoscenza e una struggente compassione per le sofferenze dell'umanità.

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

1960s, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967-1969)
Contesto: Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

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