Esplora citazioni e frasi inglesi ben noti e utili. Frasi in inglese con traduzioni.
“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
“I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.”
“If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.”
Origine: Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Das Talent gleicht dem Schützen, der ein Ziel trifft, welches die Uebrigen nicht erreichen können; das Genie dem, der eines trifft, bis zu welchem sie nicht ein Mal zu sehn vermögen...
Vol. II, Ch. III, para. 31 (On Genius), 1844
As cited in The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy: Daily Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers (2004) by Gregory Bergman, p. 137
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”
Unsourced
“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
Ovunque tu vada, vacci con tutto il tuo cuore.
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Non importa quanto vai piano, l'importante è che non ti fermi.
“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
È meglio essere soli che in cattiva compagnia.
Variante italica: Meglio soli, che male accompagnati.
Letter to his niece, Harriet Washington (30 October 1791)
1790s
Variante: It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
“I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.”
Origine: Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XLV Prophecies
“You have to take what you could get when you're getting started.”
RARE selena Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnqbvsz_M6I
Letter to a nephew (9 February 1893) Just prior to composing his "Pathetique" Symphony (No. 6)
“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”
Origine: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 46
On destiny - "The Shock Of Reality" http://allafrica.com/stories/200908240244.html All Africa (August 24 2009)
In his first school essay, while in Class VIII, expressing his ideas and ideals, in: p. 28.
Quest for Truth (1999)
La guerre, c'est un massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit de gens qui se connaissent, mais ne se massacrent pas.
Bizarre, issues 24-31 (1962), p. 102
This apocryphal quote from Paul Valéry is never precisely sourced: neither on the internet nor in the works we have consulted. See: https://www.guichetdusavoir.org/question/voir/52650
“The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.”
Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XLV Prophecies
“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”
Maxim 1070
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Colin Powell in My American Journey (1995)
Misattributed
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
Martin Luther
Misattributed
"London Letter" (December 1944), in Partisan Review (Winter 1945)
“For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet”
196
The Symposium
Je ne sais point de plus grande finesse pour parvenir à aimer que d'aimer, comme on apprend à étudier en étudiant, à parler en parlant, à travailler en travaillant.
Francis de Sales, quoted in Vie de saint François de Sales, évèque et prince de Genève by André Jean Marie Hamon (Librairie Victor Lecoffre, Paris, 1896), Vol. II, Book VII, Ch. V: Son amour pour Dieu
Variant of sourced quotation: Comme on apprend à étudier en étudiant, à jouer du luth en jouant, à nager en nageant; aussi apprend-on à aimer Dieu et le prochain en l'aimant. — Francis de Sales, quoted in Jean-Pierre Camus, "L'esprit du bienheureux saint François de Sales" (1641), Part I, Section 31; published in Oeuvres complètes de saint François de Sales, ed. Jean-Irénée Depéry (Berche et Tralin, Paris, 1875), Vol. I
Misattributed
“Happiness is the readiness to be happy.”
Aphorism #33
Interglacial (2004)
“You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.”
Statement of 2006, partly cited in Stop Making Sense: Music from the Perspective of the Real (2015) by Scott Wilson, p. 117
2000s
Contesto: You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers. A movie, by the way, was made — sort of a small-scale offbeat movie — called Pi recently. I think it starts off with a big string of digits running across the screen, and then there are people who get concerned with various things, and in the end this Bible code idea comes up. And that ties in with numbers, so the relation to numbers is not necessarily scientific, and even when I was mentally disturbed, I had a lot of interest in numbers.
“The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely.”
The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is His Church; the bridegroom and the bride, two in one flesh. All who dissent from the Scriptures concerning Christ, although they may be found in all places in which the Church is found, are not in the Church; and again all those who agree with the Scriptures concerning the Head, and do not communicate in the unity of the Church, are not in the Church
Encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIII on the Unity of the Church, June 29, 1896, ch. 16, Publications of the Catholic Truth Society, 1896, London, Volume 30, p. 41. http://books.google.com/books?id=pYcQAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA41&dq=%22Head+and+the+body+are+Christ+wholly+and+entirely%22&hl=en&ei=6JVRToOwCYbKsQKKxvTHBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Head%20and%20the%20body%20are%20Christ%20wholly%20and%20entirely%22&f=false
Alternate translation: The whole Christ is Head and Body. The Head, the only begotten Son of God; and His Body, the Church: the Bridegroom and the Bride, two in one flesh. Whosoever dissent from the Holy Scriptures in respect of the Head, even though they be found in all the places in which the Church is marked out to be, are not in the Church. And again, whosoever agree with the Holy Scriptures concerning the Head, and do not communicate with the unity of the Body, are not in the Church, because they dissent from Christ's own witness concerning Christ's Body, which is the Church.
Dr. Pusey, and the Ancient Church (1866), by Thomas W. Allies, Longmans, Green, London, p. 82 http://books.google.com/books?id=Cn-pxLKAcRIC&pg=PA82&dq=%22whole+Christ+is+Head+and+Body.+The+Head,+the+only-begotten+Son+of+God%22&hl=en&ei=gZZRTpHKDqmusQKQ8cnnBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22whole%20Christ%20is%20Head%20and%20Body.%20The%20Head%2C%20the%20only-begotten%20Son%20of%20God%22&f=false
De Unitate Ecclesiae - On the Unity of the Church (c. 401 – 405)
“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”
Amicitia quae desinere potest vera numquam fuit.
Letter 3
Letters
“The more you use it, the more it produces;
the more you talk of it, the less you understand.”
Origine: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 5, as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)
Contesto: The Tao is like a bellows:
it is empty yet infinitely capable.
The more you use it, the more it produces;
the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
Origine: 1980s, That Benediction is Where You Are (1985), p. 18
Contesto: From childhood we are trained to have problems. When we are sent to school, we have to learn how to write, how to read, and all the rest of it. How to write becomes a problem to the child. Please follow this carefully. Mathematics becomes a problem, history becomes a problem, as does chemistry. So the child is educated, from childhood, to live with problems — the problem of God, problem of a dozen things. So our brains are conditioned, trained, educated to live with problems. From childhood we have done this. What happens when a brain is educated in problems? It can never solve problems; it can only create more problems. When a brain that is trained to have problems, and to live with problems, solves one problem, in the very solution of that problem, it creates more problems. From childhood we are trained, educated to live with problems and, therefore, being centred in problems, we can never solve any problem completely. It is only the free brain that is not conditioned to problems that can solve problems. It is one of our constant burdens to have problems all the time. Therefore our brains are never quiet, free to observe, to look. So we are asking: Is it possible not to have a single problem but to face problems? But to understand those problems, and to totally resolve them, the brain must be free.
“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
"A Dream Within a Dream" (1849).
Contesto: You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
The Lion and the Mouse.
Variante: No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
“Tough times never last, but tough people do. ”
“To lose your prejudices you must travel.”
to Michael Azerrad in an interview from 1992 or 1993, in Kurt Cobain: About a Son
Interviews (1989-1994), Video
“Do it or do not do it - you will regret both.”
Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.
Origine: Either/Or
“We don’t need natural disasters. We’re building our own.”
Origine: The Australian Architects Offering Pro-Bono Design Services to Bushfire Survivors https://hivelife.com/architects-assist/.
“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”
“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
“The correct lesson to learn from surprises: the world is surprising.”
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by
“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”
“There is a God and I'm going to serve him for the rest of my life.”
Origine: Letter to Mark Bodiford http://racheljoyscott.tumblr.com/post/159838052080/rachels-suicide-journal-entry-to-mark-bodiford (1998)
“The brief madness of bliss is experienced only by those who suffer the most deeply.”
Origine: This Spoke Zarathustra (Tak pravil Zarathustra)
“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
Variante: Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts
Origine: "Einstein's Reply to Criticisms" (1949), The World As I See It (1949), p. 66 of the edition at http://books.google.com/books?id=aNKOo94tO6cC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q&f=false
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
È inutile tornare a ieri, perché ero una persona diversa.
Origine: Alice in Wonderland
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
Chiunque può simpatizzare col dolore di un amico, ma solo chi ha un animo nobile riesce a simpatizzare col successo di un amico.
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”
Variante: When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
Origine: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
Origine: The Philosophy of Aristotle
“Beauty is the illumination of your soul.”
La bellezza è l'illuminazione della tua anima.
Origine: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”
Tenetevi stretti anche chi vi tiene stretti attraverso un telefono, perché il tempo per loro non conta se speso per voi solo per ascoltare la melodia della vostra voce! Sono i migliori amici!
Variante: It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love
Origine: An Ideal Husband
“To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.”
Stardust Memories (1980).
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
La sola cosa necessaria per il trionfo del male è che le brave persone non facciano niente.
This is probably the most quoted statement attributed to Burke, and an extraordinary number of variants of it exist, but all without any definite original source. They closely resemble remarks known to have been made by the Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill, in an address at the University of St. Andrew (1 February 1867) http://books.google.com/books?id=DFNAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA36&dq=%22Bad+men+need+nothing+more+to+compass+their+ends,+than+that+good+men+should+look+on+and+do+nothing%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RUh5U6qWBLSysQT0vYGAAw&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22Bad%20men%20need%20nothing%20more%20to%20compass%20their%20ends%2C%20than%20that%20good%20men%20should%20look%20on%20and%20do%20nothing%22&f=false : Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. The very extensively used remarks attributed to Burke might be based on a paraphrase of some of his ideas, but he is not known to have ever declared them in so succinct a manner in any of his writings. It has been suggested that they may have been adapted from these lines of Burke's in his Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/LFBooks/Burke0061/SelectWorks/HTMLs/0005-01_Pt02_Thoughts.html (1770): "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." (see above)
:This purported quote bears a resemblance to the narrated theme of Sergei Bondarchuk's Soviet film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, produced in 1966. In it the narrator declares "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing", although since the original is in Russian various translations to English are possible. This purported quote also bears resemblance to a quote widely attributed to Plato, that said "The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." It also bears resemblance to what Albert Einstein wrote as part of his tribute to Pablo Casals: "The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it."
: More research done on this matter is available at these two links: Burkequote http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/essays/burkequote.html & Burkequote2 http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/essays/burkequote2.html — as the information at these links indicate, there are many variants of this statement, probably because there is no known original by Burke. In addition, an exhaustive examination of this quote has been done at the following link: QuoteInvestigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/.
Disputed
Variante: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
Custodisci bene dentro di te questo tesoro, la gentilezza. Sappi dare senza esitazione, perdere senza rimpianto, acquisire senza essere meschino.
Variant translationː All actual life is encounter.
Variante: All real life is meeting.
Origine: I and Thou (1923)
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
Lord Darlington, Act I
Origine: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
L'uomo non è altro che ciò che pensa di se stesso.
No Exit (1944)
Variante: A man is what he wills himself to be.
Origine: Existentialism and Human Emotions
Cited as attributed to Zola in The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations : Cutting Comments on Burning Issues (1992) by Charles Bufe, p. 183, but no earlier citation has yet been located, and this appears to be very similar to remarks often attributed to Denis Diderot: "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" and "Let us strangle the last king with the guts of the last priest" — these are loosely derived from a statement Diderot actually did make: "his hands would plait the priest's entrails, for want of a rope, to strangle kings."
This quote appeared in soviet popular-scientific work "Satellite atheist" (Sputnik ateista) http://books.google.ru/books/about/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0.html?id=Lq9AAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y (1959), p. 491.
Disputed
“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”
Le nostre virtù e i nostri insuccessi sono inseparabili, come la forza e la materia. Quando si separano, l'uomo non è più tale.
" The Problem of Increasing Human Energy http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1900-06-00.htm", Century Illustrated Magazine (June 1900)
“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
E quando você quer alguma coisa, todo o Universo conspira para que você realize seu desejo.
Variante: And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Origine: The Alchemist (1988), p. 22; a variant of this has become attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen" — but no occurrence of this a statement has been located prior to in The Gift of Depression : Twenty-one Inspirational Stories Sharing Experience, Strength, and Hope (2001) by John F. Brown, p. 56
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Attributed to Kierkegaard in a number of books, the earliest located on Google Books being the 1976 book Jack Kerouac: Prophet of the New Romanticism by Robert A. Hipkiss, p. 83 http://books.google.com/books?id=g_JaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22problem+to+be+solved%22#search_anchor. In the 1948 The Hibbert Journal: Volumes 46-47 the quote is referred to as "the famous Kierkegaardian slogan" on p. 237 http://books.google.com/books?id=UuDRAAAAMAAJ&q=%22the+famous+Kierkegaardian+slogan+life+is+not+a+problem+to+be+solved%22#search_anchor, which may be intended to suggest the phrase is Kierkegaard-esque rather than being something written by Kierkegaard. In reality this seems to be a slightly altered version of the quote "The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved; it is a reality to be experienced" which appeared in the 1928 book The Conquest of Illusion by Jacobus Johannes Leeuw, p. 9 http://books.google.com/books?id=OFdVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22not+a+problem+to+be+solved%22#search_anchor.
Misattributed
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
Letter to Oskar Pollak http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001062.php (27 January 1904)
Variant translations:
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it? Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us.
What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
A book should be an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us.
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Variante: A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
Contesto: I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?... we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
“I shed more tears than God could ever have required.”
Origine: Illuminations
