Famous quotes

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

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

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To understand the heart and mind of a person, don't look at what they have done, don't look at what they have achieved, but rather at what they aspire to do.

André Gide

André Gide

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There are very few monsters that guarantee the fears we have of them.

Sacha Guitry

Sacha Guitry

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Nothing distracts me, nothing amuses me. And what doesn't excite me, bores me.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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When a child destroys his toy, it seems like he is searching for its soul.

Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl

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The realm of truth is objectively divided into different spheres. It is not within our discretion to determine the manner and point of demarcation between the spheres of truth.

Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl

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The world is born within us, as Descartes made us recognize, and within us it acquires its habitual influence.

Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl

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The judgment, the evaluation, the pretension, are not empty experiences that consciousness has, but experiences composed of an intentional stream

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

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Love drives away fear, and reciprocally, fear drives away love. And not only does fear expel love; it also expels intelligence, kindness, every thought of beauty and truth, leaving only mute despair. In the end, fear even expels humanity itself from man.

Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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Life could be quite pleasant if those creditors didn't knock on the door demanding the fulfillment of ideals from poor men like us.

Eugene Ionesco

Eugene Ionesco

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Art is useless, but man is incapable of doing without the useless.

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Jean Paul

Jean Paul

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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be expelled.

Jean Paul

Jean Paul

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The memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be expelled.