Answer to life quotes

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

George Orwell

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Aldous Huxley

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Plato

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices, there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.

Alberto Moravia

The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.

Angela Carter

Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties.

Alexander MacLaren

I subject my awareness to the perfection of being, the perfection of wisdom and perfection of love, all of these being co-present in the Vast Expanse. I share this panorama of being and appreciate all I can share it with the seamless interweaving of consciousness with each moment.

Alex Grey

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

If an angel were to tell us something of his philosophy, I do believe some of his propositions would sound like 2 x 2 = 13.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Baruch Spinoza

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed.

Confucius

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We are that which activates the body.

Peace Pilgrim

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.

William Shakespeare

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Alexander Smith

Just because something is tradition doesn’t make it right.

Anthony J. D’Angelo

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

Nelson DeMille

Wisdom is harder to do than it is to know.

Yula Moses

Delay always breeds danger, and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Miguel de Cervantes

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Isaac Asimov

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Chinese Proverb

Talent is only the starting point.

Irving Berlin

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

Plautus

We are not creatures of circumstance, we are creators of circumstance.

Benjamin Disraeli

There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.

Book of Common Prayer

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Florence Nightingale

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Alexander Hamilton

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anaïs Nin

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Jean Paul Sartre

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don't truly understand.

Bill Bryson

Marx was wrong, jealousy and pride, emotional forces, are just as responsible as hunger and necessity for our actions, they explain the whole of History, and the initial fall of man.

Eugene Ionesco