Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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I cannot rely on men whom I do not know, basing myself on human kindness or on man's interest in the good of society, given that man is free and there is no human nature on which I can base myself.

Fernando Savater

Fernando Savater

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My dream is Picasso's; to have a lot of money to live peacefully like the poor.

Fernando Savater

Fernando Savater

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It is better to know after having thought and discussed than to accept knowledge that no one discusses in order to avoid having to think.

Fernando Savater

Fernando Savater

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The secret of happiness is to have simple tastes and a complex mind, the problem is that often the mind is simple and the tastes are complex.

Fernando Savater

Fernando Savater

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Idiot: From the Greek idiotes, used to refer to someone who did not get involved in politics, concerned only with their own affairs, incapable of offering anything to others.

Fernando Savater

Fernando Savater

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There is no education if there is no truth to transmit, if everything is more or less true, if everyone has their equally respectable truth and one cannot rationally decide among such diversity.

Fernando Savater

Fernando Savater

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Unlike old age, which is always superfluous, the characteristic of youth is that it is always in fashion.

Fernando Savater

Fernando Savater

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Yes, in bullfighting, death is present, but as an ally, as a accomplice of life: death acts as a supporting player so that life asserts itself.

Fernando Savater

Fernando Savater

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Nothing can be sensibly claimed from life.

Fernando Savater

Fernando Savater

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Boredom is the primary explanation for why history is so full of atrocity.

Fernando Savater

Fernando Savater

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One can't do anything for the people they love, just keep on loving them.

Jean Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Say

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It remains humiliating for a person of wit to know that there is no fool who cannot teach them something.