Special Quotations

General Quotations

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help you create the fact.

To live is like to love--all reason against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

What is your religion? I mean--not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Everything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.)

History is philosophy teaching by example.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope.

All great ideas are dangerous.

Man is the only animal for whom his existence is a problem which he has to solve.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

The great artists are those who impose their peculiar vision on the rest of mankind.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

What is it that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan or Saturn rocket and wait for someone to light the fuse?

I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans.

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.

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