Famous quotes

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

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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All human activity is motivated by desire or impulse.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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The ability of science to survive in the long run depends on psychology; that is, it depends on what human beings desire.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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The prudent man only thinks about his difficulties when it serves a purpose. When it doesn't, he thinks about something else.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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The only ones interested in changing the world are the pessimists, because the optimists are delighted with what is.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place. We move forward, stop, and even go backward according to its orders. Our mistake is to imagine that we can outsmart it.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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What is the use of regret if it doesn't erase anything that has happened? The best kind of regret is simply to change.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Joy and pain are not like oil and water, but rather coexist.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Time is not a rope that can be measured knot by knot, time is an oblique and undulating surface that only memory is capable of making move and approach.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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A person's identity is not defined by the name they have, the place they were born, or the date they came into the world. A person's identity simply consists of being, and being cannot be denied.

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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The news is never bad for the chosen ones of God.

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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Every word has consequences, every silence does too.

Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

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What you think belongs to everyone; only what you feel is yours: if you want to make it yours, feel that God in whom you think.