Martin Svoboda

@quick, členem od 4. dubna 2011
Jean Paul Sartre foto

“We are our choices.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Jean Paul Sartre foto

“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Hermann Hesse foto

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”

Hermann Hesse kniha Narcissus and Goldmund

Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)

Confucius foto

“Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Varianta: Someone who is a clever speaker and maintains a 'too-smiley' face is seldom considered a humane person.
Zdroj: The Analects, Chapter I

Albert Schweitzer foto

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

Varianta: Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Bruce Lee foto

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Blaise Pascal foto

“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

Varianta: Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Epictetus foto

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

Book III, ch. 23.
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Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.”

Friedrich Nietzsche kniha Human, All Too Human

I.303 http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&amp;q=&amp;quot;we+often+contradict+an+opinion+for+no+other+reason+than+that+we+do+not+like+the+tone+in+which+it+is+expressed&amp;quot;&amp;pg=PA137#v=onepage <br class="br">Human, All Too Human (1878)

Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.”

Friedrich Nietzsche kniha Human, All Too Human

II.293, maxim 358 http://books.google.kz/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&amp;pg=PA293&amp;dq=%22In+the+mountains+of+truth+you+will+never+climb+in+vain%22&amp;hl=en <br class="br">Human, All Too Human (1878)

Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Ernest Hemingway foto

“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

This quotation was not crafted by Ernest Hemingway. Its exact genesis is uncertain, but QI hypothesizes that the 1929 statement by Hemingway and the 1992 lyric by Leonard Cohen both strongly influenced the evolution of the expression and its ascription. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/11/16/light/

José Ortega Y Gasset foto

“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”

José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955) Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist

Zdroj: Man and Crisis (1962), p. 94.

José Ortega Y Gasset foto
Paul Valéry foto

“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”

Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher

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