Famous quotes

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

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.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Patrick J. Kennedy

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Terrorists attempt to modify our behavior by provoking fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

Robert Kennedy

Robert Kennedy

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Every time a man defends an ideal, acts to improve the fate of others, or fights against an injustice, he transmits a tiny wave of hope.

Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera

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It's possible that we may not be capable of loving precisely because we desire to be loved, because we want the other person to give us something (love), instead of approaching them without demands and wanting only their mere presence.

Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain is as heavy as the pain felt with someone, for someone, multiplied by the imagination, prolonged in a thousand echoes.

Prince Charles Joseph de Ligne

Prince Charles Joseph de Ligne

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Whose reputations do they depend on? Almost always those who have none.