Famous quotes

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

Aristotle

Aristotle

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Philosophy must be a special knowledge, of the first principles and the first causes.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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Something that is learned in the midst of plagues: that there are more things in men worthy of admiration than of contempt.

René de Chateaubriand

René de Chateaubriand

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Political truth, in whatever form it may appear, is nothing more than order and freedom.

Eugene Ionesco

Eugene Ionesco

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The freedom of fantasy is not an escape to unreality; it is creation and daring.

Jean de Monet

Jean de Monet

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Man never looks at the sky because he always has it in sight.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Even on the highest throne, one sits on one's own bottom.

Here I am a foreigner because no one understands me.

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

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Every day without joy was not yours: it was only to endure in it. As long as you live without enjoying it, you are not truly living.

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

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Do what you can, with what you have, wherever you are.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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I have always believed that the good was nothing but the beautiful put into action.