Václav Havel
View AuthorHope is not the same as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but rather the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Václav Havel
View AuthorThe tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that he cares less and less about it.
William Hazlitt
View AuthorAwake men have only one world, but sleeping men have their own world.
William Hazlitt
View AuthorMan is the only animal that laughs and cries, because he is the only one who perceives the difference between what things are and what they should be.
William Hazlitt
View AuthorOne knows more about the road by having traveled on it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
William Hazlitt
View AuthorThe art of life is knowing how to enjoy a little and endure a lot.
Friedrich Hebbel
View AuthorOften, youth is criticized for believing that the world begins with them. True, but old age often believes even more frequently that the world ends with them. What is worse?
Friedrich Hebbel
View AuthorTo more than one who says that life is short, the day seems too long.
Friedrich Hebbel
View AuthorWe must act, not to go against destiny, but to go ahead of it.
Friedrich Hegel
View AuthorMen are nothing but the instruments of the genius of the universe.
Heinrich Heine
View AuthorTrue madness may be nothing more than wisdom itself, tired of discovering the world's shame, having made the intelligent resolution to go crazy.
Heinrich Heine
View AuthorThe wise generate new ideas; the foolish expand them.