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Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.”

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

“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”

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

Variante: He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Blaise Pascal photo
Laozi photo
Pope John XXIII photo
Blaise Pascal photo

“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Daniel J. Boorstin photo
Maria Montessori photo
John Keats photo
Laozi photo

“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.”
Colui che conosce gli altri è saggio. Colui che conosce se stesso è illuminato.

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

“Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
Dorothy Thompson photo
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo
Seneca the Younger photo
Winston S. Churchill photo
Laozi photo
Lewis Carroll photo
Isocrates photo

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

Isocrates (-436–-338 BC) ancient greek rhetorician

Variante: True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Voltaire photo

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
Dio ci ha dato il dono della vita, sta a noi darci il dono di viverla bene.

Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
William Shakespeare photo
Aristotle photo

“Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Thomas Edison photo
Gautama Buddha photo
Laozi photo

“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”
L'uomo saggio non accumula i propri tesori. Più ne dà agli altri, più ne ha per sé.

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

“From wonder into wonder existence opens.”

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

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

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

“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
John Adams photo
Blaise Pascal photo
Leonardo Da Vinci photo
Laozi photo

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
Ho solo tre cose da insegnare: semplicità, pazienza, compassione. Queste tre cose sono i vostri più grandi tesori.

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

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

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

“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”

Chanakya (-375–-283 BC) Ancient Indian statesman and philosopher
Albert Schweitzer photo
Confucius photo

“A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.”
Un giovane, quando è in patria, dovrebbe essere un figlio devoto e, all'estero, rispettoso delle persone più anziane di lui. Dovrebbe essere serio e sincero. Dovrebbe traboccare d'amore verso tutti e coltivare le buone amicizie. Quando ha il tempo e l'occasione, dopo aver fatto queste cose, dovrebbe impiegare il tempo studiando la buona educazione.

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Eckhart Tolle photo
Baltasar Gracián photo

“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
Senza coraggio, la saggezza non porta alcun frutto.

Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher
Albert Schweitzer photo
Laozi photo

“He who is contented is rich.”

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

“A warrior thinks of his death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.”

Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

Cyrus the Great photo

“Do what you want, but be prepared in that case to be ruled rather than to rule others... Soft countries breed soft men. For it is not possible for the same land to bear both wonderful fruits and men who are good at war.”

Cyrus the Great (-600–-530 BC) King and founder of the Achaemenid Empire

After being suggested by Artembares, grandfather of Artayctes, to abandon the rocky land of Persia Proper for a better region in the empire.
Origine: As quoted by Herodotus, in the final section of The Histories; cited in https://books.google.com/books?id=2fZmqKcsf-wC&pg=PT362&lpg=PT362

Warren Buffett photo

“Criticize by category — praise by name.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

[CNCB's Becky Quick interviews Warren Buffett (2/25/19), February 25, 2019, CNBC Television, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqc56crs56s] (quote at 48:00 of 2:00:00)

Paul McCartney photo

“What you do and what you love just becomes a part of you, if you're lucky.”

Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer

Origine: Paul McCartney: The Waterstones Interview
December 2021
https://youtu.be/chROemnJfIo?t=2916

Catherine of Siena photo

“Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.”

Catherine of Siena (1347–1380) Italian Dominican saint

quoted in [LifeSite, The heart of the Catholic Church's current crisis is the abandonment of law and doctrine - LifeSite, 2022-06-07, 2022-05-05, https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/the-heart-of-the-catholic-churchs-current-crisis-is-the-abandonment-of-law-and-doctrine/]
Variant versions:
I see the world is rotten because of silence … speak the truth in a million voices. It is silence that kills. (quoted at 0:23 of [Randall Terry, The Silence That Kills, 2022-06-07, 2020-10-19, 23:29, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql2ncPIgui0])
Original Italian: Oimé, non più tacere! Gridate con centomiglia di lingue. Veggo che, per lo tacere, el mondo è guasto, la Sposa di Cristo è impalidita ( Lettera 16, "A uno grande prelato" http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/it/eki.htm#q)
lit.: "O alas, be silent no more! Shout with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that, through silence, the world is broken, the Bride of Christ is impaled"

George Orwell photo

“In my small way I have been fighting for years against the systematic faking of history which now goes on.”

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

Letter to Frank Barber (15 December 1944)
The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, George Orwell: As I Please, 1943-1945, Editors: Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus.  p.  292.

Chris Voss photo
Prevale photo

“Mutual love is happiness.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Originale: L'amore reciproco è felicità.
Origine: prevale.net

Zafar Mirzo photo
Albert Einstein photo

“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”

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

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character”

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

Speech made in honor of Thomas Mann in January 1939, when Mann was given the Einstein Prize given by the Jewish Forum. Quoted in Einstein Lived Here by Abraham Pais (1994), p. 214 http://books.google.com/books?id=u_9QAAAAMAAJ&q=%22becomes+lack+of+power%22#search_anchor
1930s
Contesto: The standard bearers have grown weak in the defense of their priceless heritage, and the powers of darkness have been strengthened thereby. Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.

Jane Austen photo

“Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
L'amicizia è certamente il migliore balsamo per le piaghe di un amore deluso.

Jane Austen libro Northanger Abbey

Variante: Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Origine: Northanger Abbey

Winston S. Churchill photo

“Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.”
Diciamolo: le parole brevi sono le migliori. E le parole vecchie, quando brevi, sono le migliori in assoluto.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Speech on receiving the London Times Literary Award November 2, 1949
Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches, Hyperion (2003), p. 453 ISBN ISBN 1401300561
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Origine: Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

Albert Einstein photo
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“A great man is always willing to be little.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Compensation
Contesto: Our strength grows out of our weakness. The indignation which arms itself with secret forces does not awaken until we are pricked and stung and sorely assailed. A great man is always willing to be little. Whilst he sits on the cushion of advantages, he goes to sleep. When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill. The wise man throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point. The wound cicatrizes and falls off from him like a dead skin, and when they would triumph, lo! he has passed on invulnerable. Blame is safer than praise. I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies. In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

Paulo Coelho photo

“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”

Paulo Coelho libro Sulla sponda del fiume Piedra mi sono seduta e ho pianto

Origine: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Ayn Rand photo

“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”

Ayn Rand libro Anthem

Variante: The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52).
Origine: Anthem

Charles Bukowski photo

“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it.”

Charles Bukowski libro Factotum

Origine: Factotum (1975), Ch. 17
Contesto: I got into bed, opened the bottle, worked the pillow into a hard knot behind my back, took a deep breath, and sat in the dark looking out of the window. It was the first time I had been alone for five days. I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me. I took a drink of wine.

Elbert Hubbard photo

“Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

John North Willys (as reprinted in Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings, Part 2 (1998), pp. 331–337, Roycrofters, 1922).
Pamphlets
Origine: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen

William Blake photo

“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”

William Blake libro Il matrimonio del cielo e dell'inferno

Origine: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 41

Woody Allen photo

“Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972)

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