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Selma Lagerlöf foto

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
Nic na Zemi nemůže nahradit ztrátu toho, který vás miloval.

Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) Swedish female writer
Aristotle foto

“To perceive is to suffer.”
Vnímat znamená trpět.

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Stephen Hawking foto

“Simplicity is a matter of taste”
Jednoduchost je záležitostí vkusu.

Stephen Hawking kniha The Grand Design

Zdroj: The Grand Design

Sojourner Truth foto

“I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.”
Já neumřu, půjdu domů jako padající hvězda.

Sojourner Truth (1797–1883) African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist
John Lennon foto

“Nothing is real.”
Nic není skutečné.

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Zdroj: Beatles Lyrics

Arnold Schwarzenegger foto

“If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.”
Pokud si to dokážu představit a uvěřit tomu, pak toho dokážu i dosáhnout.

Arnold Schwarzenegger kniha Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

Zdroj: Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

Ramana Maharshi foto

“Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage”
Realizace není získání něčeho nového, ani to není nová schopnost. Je to pouze odstranění všech kamufláží.

Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) Indian religious leader
Arthur Schopenhauer foto

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Talent zasáhne cíl, který nikdo jiný nemůže zasáhnout; Genius zasáhne cíl, který nikdo jiný nevidí.

Arthur Schopenhauer kniha The World as Will and Representation

Das Talent gleicht dem Schützen, der ein Ziel trifft, welches die Uebrigen nicht erreichen können; das Genie dem, der eines trifft, bis zu welchem sie nicht ein Mal zu sehn vermögen...
Vol. II, Ch. III, para. 31 (On Genius), 1844
As cited in The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy: Daily Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers‎ (2004) by Gregory Bergman, p. 137
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)

Pablo Picasso foto

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
Hlavním nepřítelem kreativity je zdravý rozum.

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Woody Allen foto

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
Neznám otázku, ale sex je určitě její odpovědí.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Paul Valéry foto

“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”
Problémem dnešní doby je, že budoucnost není taková, jaká bývala.

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

Unsourced

Ernest Hemingway foto

“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
Z pravidla musíš první žít, až poté psát o životě.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Confucius foto

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
Kamkoli se vydáte, jděte s celým srdcem.

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

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
Dejte mi knihy, francouzské víno, ovoce, pěkné počasí a trošku hudby, která hraje z dveří někoho, koho neznám.

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Confucius foto

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Nezáleží na tom, jak pomalu jdete, dokud nezastavíte.

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

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
Je lepší být sám než ve špatné společnosti.

George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States

Letter to his niece, Harriet Washington (30 October 1791)
1790s
Varianta: It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Marilyn Monroe foto

“I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.”
Nejsem obětí emocionálních konfliktů. Jsem člověk.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Zdroj: Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words

Leonardo Da Vinci foto

“Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead. The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.”
Šťastní budou ti, kdo naslouchají slovům mrtvých. Čtou jejich dobré skutky a poslouchají jejich příkazy.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XLV Prophecies

Archimedes foto

“Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.”
Stejná závaží ve stejných vzdálenostech jsou v rovnováze a stejná závaží v různých vzdálenostech nejsou v rovnováze, ale sklánějí se k závaží, které je ve větší vzdálenosti.

Archimedes kniha On the Equilibrium of Planes

Book 1, Postulate 1.
On the Equilibrium of Planes

Selena foto

“You have to take what you could get when you're getting started.”
Když začínáte, musíte brát, co se dá.

Selena (1971–1995) Mexican-American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion designer

RARE selena Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnqbvsz_M6I

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky foto

“What I need is to believe in myself again— for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.”
Musím si znovu věřit - protože moje víra je velmi oslabená; zdá se mi, že moje role skončila.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) Russian composer

Letter to a nephew (9 February 1893) Just prior to composing his "Pathetique" Symphony (No. 6)

Laozi foto

“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”
Kdo ví, že dost je dost, bude mít vždycky dost.

Laozi kniha Tao Te Ching

Zdroj: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 46

T. B. Joshua foto

“Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.”
Každý den má svůj vlastní osud. Včerejšek je historie, dnešek je příležitost a zítřek je tajemství.

T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader

On destiny - "The Shock Of Reality" http://allafrica.com/stories/200908240244.html All Africa (August 24 2009)

Laozi foto
Sri Chinmoy foto

“If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.”
Jestliže neúspěch má sílu proměnit váš život v hořkost, pak trpělivost má sílu proměnit váš život v tu nejsladší radost. Nevzdávejte se osudu po jediném neúspěchu. Neúspěch nanejvýš předchází úspěchu.

Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru

Songs of the Soul (1971)

Zakir Hussain (politician) foto
Paul Valéry foto

“War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.”
Válka: masakr lidí, kteří se navzájem neznají, pro zisk lidí, kteří se znají, ale nemasakrují se navzájem.

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

La guerre, c'est un massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit de gens qui se connaissent, mais ne se massacrent pas.
Bizarre, issues 24-31 (1962), p. 102
This apocryphal quote from Paul Valéry is never precisely sourced: neither on the internet nor in the works we have consulted. See: https://www.guichetdusavoir.org/question/voir/52650

Jagadish Chandra Bose foto

“The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.”
Skutečnou laboratoří je mysl, kde za iluzemi odhalujeme zákony pravdy.

Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, botanist and archaeologist

Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,

Leonardo Da Vinci foto

“Feathers shall raise men towards the heaven even as they do the birds. That is by the letters written by their quills.”
Peří pozvedne lidi k nebi stejně jako ptáky. A to písmeny psanými peřím.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XLV Prophecies

“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”
Často jsem litoval svých slov, nikdy svého mlčení.

Publilio Siro Latin writer

Maxim 1070
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave

Karl Popper foto

“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
Vedení je řešení problémů. Den, kdy vám vojáci přestanou přinášet své problémy, je dnem, kdy jste je přestali vést. Buď ztratili důvěru, že jim můžete pomoci, nebo dospěli k závěru, že vás to nezajímá. V obou případech se jedná o selhání vedení.

Karl Popper (1902–1994) Austrian-British philosopher of science

Colin Powell in My American Journey (1995)
Misattributed

Martin Luther King, Jr. foto

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
I kdybych věděl, že se zítra svět rozpadne, stejně bych zasadil svou jabloň.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther
Misattributed

George Orwell foto

“So far as I can see, all political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”
Pokud vím, veškeré politické myšlení posledních let bylo poznamenáno stejným způsobem. Lidé dokážou předvídat budoucnost jen tehdy, když se shoduje s jejich vlastními přáními, a nejzjevnější fakta lze ignorovat, když jsou nežádoucí.

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

"London Letter" (December 1944), in Partisan Review (Winter 1945)

Nisargadatta Maharaj foto

“(…) Watch your mind, how it comes into being, how it operates. As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. (…).”
Sledujte svou mysl, jak se probouzí, jak funguje. Když pozorujete svou mysl, objevíte sami sebe jako pozorovatele. Když stojíte v klidu a jen pozorujete, objevujete své já jako světlo za pozorovatelem.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru

Mind
Zdroj: I am That, P.188.

Plato foto

“For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet”
Každý, koho se jednou dotkne láska, se stane básníkem.

Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher

196
The Symposium

Anatole France foto

“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”
Mluvit se učíte tím, že mluvíte, studovat tím, že studujete, běhat tím, že běháte, pracovat tím, že pracujete; stejně tak se učíte milovat tím, že milujete.

Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer

Je ne sais point de plus grande finesse pour parvenir à aimer que d'aimer, comme on apprend à étudier en étudiant, à parler en parlant, à travailler en travaillant.
Francis de Sales, quoted in Vie de saint François de Sales, évèque et prince de Genève by André Jean Marie Hamon (Librairie Victor Lecoffre, Paris, 1896), Vol. II, Book VII, Ch. V: Son amour pour Dieu
Variant of sourced quotation: Comme on apprend à étudier en étudiant, à jouer du luth en jouant, à nager en nageant; aussi apprend-on à aimer Dieu et le prochain en l'aimant. — Francis de Sales, quoted in Jean-Pierre Camus, "L'esprit du bienheureux saint François de Sales" (1641), Part I, Section 31; published in Oeuvres complètes de saint François de Sales, ed. Jean-Irénée Depéry (Berche et Tralin, Paris, 1875), Vol. I
Misattributed

“Happiness is the readiness to be happy.”
Štěstí znamená být připraven být šťastný.

James Richardson (1950) American poet

Aphorism #33
Interglacial (2004)

Protagoras foto
John Nash foto

“You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.”
Nemusíte být matematik, abyste měli cit pro čísla.

John Nash (1928–2015) American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate

Statement of 2006, partly cited in Stop Making Sense: Music from the Perspective of the Real (2015) by Scott Wilson, p. 117
2000s
Kontext: You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers. A movie, by the way, was made — sort of a small-scale offbeat movie — called Pi recently. I think it starts off with a big string of digits running across the screen, and then there are people who get concerned with various things, and in the end this Bible code idea comes up. And that ties in with numbers, so the relation to numbers is not necessarily scientific, and even when I was mentally disturbed, I had a lot of interest in numbers.

Aurelius Augustinus foto

“The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely.”
Hlava a tělo jsou Kristus úplně a zcela.

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher

The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is His Church; the bridegroom and the bride, two in one flesh. All who dissent from the Scriptures concerning Christ, although they may be found in all places in which the Church is found, are not in the Church; and again all those who agree with the Scriptures concerning the Head, and do not communicate in the unity of the Church, are not in the Church
Encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIII on the Unity of the Church, June 29, 1896, ch. 16, Publications of the Catholic Truth Society, 1896, London, Volume 30, p. 41. http://books.google.com/books?id=pYcQAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA41&dq=%22Head+and+the+body+are+Christ+wholly+and+entirely%22&hl=en&ei=6JVRToOwCYbKsQKKxvTHBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Head%20and%20the%20body%20are%20Christ%20wholly%20and%20entirely%22&f=false
Alternate translation: The whole Christ is Head and Body. The Head, the only begotten Son of God; and His Body, the Church: the Bridegroom and the Bride, two in one flesh. Whosoever dissent from the Holy Scriptures in respect of the Head, even though they be found in all the places in which the Church is marked out to be, are not in the Church. And again, whosoever agree with the Holy Scriptures concerning the Head, and do not communicate with the unity of the Body, are not in the Church, because they dissent from Christ's own witness concerning Christ's Body, which is the Church.
Dr. Pusey, and the Ancient Church (1866), by Thomas W. Allies, Longmans, Green, London, p. 82 http://books.google.com/books?id=Cn-pxLKAcRIC&pg=PA82&dq=%22whole+Christ+is+Head+and+Body.+The+Head,+the+only-begotten+Son+of+God%22&hl=en&ei=gZZRTpHKDqmusQKQ8cnnBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22whole%20Christ%20is%20Head%20and%20Body.%20The%20Head%2C%20the%20only-begotten%20Son%20of%20God%22&f=false
De Unitate Ecclesiae - On the Unity of the Church (c. 401 – 405)

Jerome foto

“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”
Přátelství, které může skončit, nikdy nebylo skutečné.

Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church

Letter 3
Letters

Laozi foto

“The more you use it, the more it produces;
the more you talk of it, the less you understand.”

Čím více něco používáte, tím více tím vytváříte; čím více o něčem mluvíte, tím méně tomu rozumíte.

Laozi kniha Tao Te Ching

Zdroj: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 5, as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)
Kontext: The Tao is like a bellows:
it is empty yet infinitely capable.
The more you use it, the more it produces;
the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

Jiddu Krishnamurti foto

“From childhood we are trained to have problems. When we are sent to school, we have to learn how to write, how to read, and all the rest of it.”
Od dětství jsme vychováváni k tomu, abychom měli problémy. Když nás pošlou do školy, musíme se naučit psát, číst a všechno ostatní.

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher

Zdroj: 1980s, That Benediction is Where You Are (1985), p. 18
Kontext: From childhood we are trained to have problems. When we are sent to school, we have to learn how to write, how to read, and all the rest of it. How to write becomes a problem to the child. Please follow this carefully. Mathematics becomes a problem, history becomes a problem, as does chemistry. So the child is educated, from childhood, to live with problems — the problem of God, problem of a dozen things. So our brains are conditioned, trained, educated to live with problems. From childhood we have done this. What happens when a brain is educated in problems? It can never solve problems; it can only create more problems. When a brain that is trained to have problems, and to live with problems, solves one problem, in the very solution of that problem, it creates more problems. From childhood we are trained, educated to live with problems and, therefore, being centred in problems, we can never solve any problem completely. It is only the free brain that is not conditioned to problems that can solve problems. It is one of our constant burdens to have problems all the time. Therefore our brains are never quiet, free to observe, to look. So we are asking: Is it possible not to have a single problem but to face problems? But to understand those problems, and to totally resolve them, the brain must be free.

Edgar Allan Poe foto

“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”

Edgar Allan Poe kniha A Dream Within a Dream

"A Dream Within a Dream" (1849).
Kontext: You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

Mikhail Lermontov foto

“Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.”
Šťastní lidé jsou ignoranti a sláva není nic jiného než úspěch, k jehož dosažení stačí být jen vychytralý.

Mikhail Lermontov kniha Hrdina naší doby

A Hero of Our Time (1840; rev. 1841)

Aesop foto

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Žádný projev laskavosti, ať je sebemenší, není nikdy zbytečný.

Aesop kniha The Lion and the Mouse

The Lion and the Mouse.
Varianta: No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Robert H. Schuller foto

“Tough times never last, but tough people do. ”
Těžké časy nikdy nepřetrvají, ale lidé s těžkou povahou ano.

Robert H. Schuller (1926–2015) American television evangelist
Marlene Dietrich foto

“To lose your prejudices you must travel.”
Chcete-li se zbavit předsudků, musíte cestovat.

Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992) German-American actress and singer
Kurt Cobain foto

“It’s sad to think what the state of rock and roll will be twenty years from now. It just seems like when rock and roll is dead the whole world’s gonna explode. It’s already so rehashed and so plagariazed that it’s barely alive now. It’s disgusting. I mean, kids don’t even really care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It’s already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life. And at that point I really can’t see music being of any importance to a teenager, really.”
Je smutné pomyslet na to, v jakém stavu bude rokenrol za dvacet let. Vypadá to, že až rokenrol umře, celý svět exploduje. Už teď je tak překopaný a plagiovaný, že sotva žije. Je to nechutné. Vždyť už se děti ani nezajímají o rokenrol tolik jako dřív, tak jako ostatní generace. Už se z něj stalo jen módní prohlášení a identita, kterou děti používají jako nástroj k šoustání a společenskému životu. A v tu chvíli si opravdu nedokážu představit, že by hudba měla pro teenagera nějaký opravdový význam.

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

to Michael Azerrad in an interview from 1992 or 1993, in Kurt Cobain: About a Son
Interviews (1989-1994), Video

Sören Kierkegaard foto

“Do it or do not do it - you will regret both.”
Buď to uděláte, nebo ne - obojího budete litovat.

Sören Kierkegaard kniha Either/Or

Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.
Zdroj: Either/Or

Jiri Lev foto

“We don’t need natural disasters. We’re building our own.”
Nepotřebujeme přírodní katastrofy. Budujeme si vlastní.

Jiri Lev (1979)

Zdroj: The Australian Architects Offering Pro-Bono Design Services to Bushfire Survivors https://hivelife.com/architects-assist/.

Nelson Mandela foto

“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”
Při přípravě na cestu vpřed nezapomeňte oslavit milníky.

Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
Ezra Pound foto

“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
Otrok je ten, kdo čeká, až někdo přijde a osvobodí ho.

Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
Daniel Kahneman foto

“The correct lesson to learn from surprises: the world is surprising.”
Správné poučení z překvapení: svět je překvapivý.

Daniel Kahneman (1934) Israeli-American psychologist
Maya Angelou foto

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
Můžeme se setkat s mnoha porážkami, ale nesmíme se nechat porazit.

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Jean De La Fontaine foto

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
Smutek odlétá na křídlech času.

Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
Winston S. Churchill foto

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
Živíme se tím, co dostáváme, ale život tvoříme tím, co dáváme.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Daisaku Ikeda foto

“The person who lives life fully, glowing with life's energy, is the person who lives a successful life.”
Člověk, který žije naplno a září životní energií, žije úspěšný život.

Daisaku Ikeda (1928) Japanese writer
Laozi foto

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
Když se spokojíte s tím, že jste prostě sami sebou a nesrovnáváte se ani nesoutěžíte, všichni si vás budou vážit.

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
Sun Tzu foto

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
Vrcholným válečným uměním je podmanit si nepřítele bez boje.

Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
Epicurus foto

“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
Nepomáhá nám tolik pomoc našich přátel jako jistota, že by nám pomohli.

Epicurus (-341–-269 BC) ancient Greek philosopher
Ovid foto

“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.”
Podstatou opravdového přátelství je smířit se s drobnými přešlapy druhého.

Ovid (-43–17 BC) Roman poet
Paulo Coelho foto

“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Je lepší milovat a ztratit, než nikdy nemilovat.

Paulo Coelho kniha Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by

Rajneesh foto

“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”
Odvaha je láska k neznámému.

Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
Mwanandeke Kindembo foto

“A musician is similar to someone who wrote a letter to the loved one. Then decided to read it out loud instead of sending it.”
Hudebník je podobný někomu, kdo napíše dopis milované osobě a pak se rozhodne ho místo odeslání přečíst nahlas.

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Mwanandeke Kindembo foto

“We must consider that wisdom is embedded in knowledge. Here is the list of the desires in order: Love, wealth, health, power and knowledge.”
Musíme vzít v úvahu, že moudrost je zakotvena v poznání. Zde je seznam tužeb v pořadí: Láska, bohatství, zdraví, moc a poznání.

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Mwanandeke Kindembo foto

“There's no need to lower or raise yourself above the things that you are not. Live according to your ability. Be true to yourself and your own nature.”
Není třeba se povyšovat nad to, čím nejste. Žijte dle svých schopností. Buďte upřímní k sobě i ke své přirozenosti.

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“There is a God and I'm going to serve him for the rest of my life.”
Bůh existuje a já mu budu sloužit do konce života.

Rachel Scott (1981–1999) American murder victim

Zdroj: Letter to Mark Bodiford http://racheljoyscott.tumblr.com/post/159838052080/rachels-suicide-journal-entry-to-mark-bodiford (1998)

Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“The brief madness of bliss is experienced only by those who suffer the most deeply.”
Krátké šílenství blaženosti zažívají jen ti, kteří trpí nejhlouběji.

Friedrich Nietzsche kniha Tak pravil Zarathustra

Zdroj: This Spoke Zarathustra (Tak pravil Zarathustra)

T.S. Eliot foto

“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”
Někdy se věci stanou možnými, pokud je dostatečně chceme.

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Miley Cyrus foto

“Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.”
Ty minuty, kdy jsem na jevišti, jsou nejlepší! Být tam a dívat se na publikum, vidět jejich tváře, slyšet je zpívat ta pozitivní slova z písní.

Miley Cyrus (1992) American actor and singer-songwriter
Albert Einstein foto

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
Málo je těch, kteří vidí svýma očima a cítí svým srdcem.

Albert Einstein kniha The World as I See It

Varianta: Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts
Zdroj: "Einstein's Reply to Criticisms" (1949), The World As I See It (1949), p. 66 of the edition at http://books.google.com/books?id=aNKOo94tO6cC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q&f=false

Lewis Carroll foto

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Je mi k ničemu, abych se vracela ke včerejšku, neboť jsem v té době byla jiným člověkem.

Lewis Carroll kniha Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Zdroj: Alice in Wonderland

Oscar Wilde foto
Oscar Wilde foto

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
Sympatizovat s úspěchy přítele – to vyžaduje velmi jemnou povahu.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Will Durant foto

“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”
Problém s většinou lidí spočívá v tom, že myslí svými nadějemi nebo obavami či přáními spíše než s jejich myslí.

Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer
Robert Walser foto

“With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.”
Se všemi mými nápady a pošetilostmi jsem jednoho dne našel korporaci pro propagaci krásných, ale nespolehlivých představ.

Robert Walser kniha Jakob von Gunten

Zdroj: Jakob von Gunten

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”
Když vám život dává citrony, připravte si limonádu.

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

Varianta: When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.

Joseph Campbell foto

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
Výsadou života je být tím, kým jste.

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Zdroj: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Aristotle foto

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
Energie mysli je podstatou života.

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

Zdroj: The Philosophy of Aristotle

“Beauty is the illumination of your soul.”
Krása je osvícením vaší duše.

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

Zdroj: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Oscar Wilde foto

“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”
Velká odvaha znamená vidět svět v celé své zkaženosti, a přesto ho milovat.

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Varianta: It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love
Zdroj: An Ideal Husband

Woody Allen foto

“To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.”
Tobě se jevím jako ateista, pro Boha jsem umírněná opozice.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Stardust Memories (1980).

Edmund Burke foto

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
Jediná věc je nezbytná pro triumf zla, aby dobří lidé nic nedělali.

Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman

This is probably the most quoted statement attributed to Burke, and an extraordinary number of variants of it exist, but all without any definite original source. They closely resemble remarks known to have been made by the Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill, in an address at the University of St. Andrew (1 February 1867) http://books.google.com/books?id=DFNAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA36&dq=%22Bad+men+need+nothing+more+to+compass+their+ends,+than+that+good+men+should+look+on+and+do+nothing%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RUh5U6qWBLSysQT0vYGAAw&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22Bad%20men%20need%20nothing%20more%20to%20compass%20their%20ends%2C%20than%20that%20good%20men%20should%20look%20on%20and%20do%20nothing%22&f=false : Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. The very extensively used remarks attributed to Burke might be based on a paraphrase of some of his ideas, but he is not known to have ever declared them in so succinct a manner in any of his writings. It has been suggested that they may have been adapted from these lines of Burke's in his Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/LFBooks/Burke0061/SelectWorks/HTMLs/0005-01_Pt02_Thoughts.html (1770): "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." (see above)
:This purported quote bears a resemblance to the narrated theme of Sergei Bondarchuk's Soviet film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, produced in 1966. In it the narrator declares "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing", although since the original is in Russian various translations to English are possible. This purported quote also bears resemblance to a quote widely attributed to Plato, that said "The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." It also bears resemblance to what Albert Einstein wrote as part of his tribute to Pablo Casals: "The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it."
: More research done on this matter is available at these two links: Burkequote http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/essays/burkequote.html & Burkequote2 http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/essays/burkequote2.html — as the information at these links indicate, there are many variants of this statement, probably because there is no known original by Burke. In addition, an exhaustive examination of this quote has been done at the following link: QuoteInvestigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/.
Disputed
Varianta: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

Gabriel García Márquez citát: “Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
Gabriel García Márquez foto

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
Nikdo si nezaslouží tvé slzy, a ten kdo by si je zasloužil, by tě nikdy nerozplakal.

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
George Sand foto

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
Hlídejte v sobě ten poklad, laskavost. Vědět, jak dát bez váhání, jak ztratit bez lítosti, jak získat bez významnosti.

George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
Martin Buber foto

“All real living is meeting.”
Celý skutečný život je setkání.

Martin Buber kniha Já a Ty

Variant translationː All actual life is encounter.
Varianta: All real life is meeting.
Zdroj: I and Thou (1923)

Albert Einstein foto

“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
Ačkoli může vzácně existovat pravá láska, je to méně než skutečné přátelství.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Oscar Wilde foto

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
Je absurdní rozdělit lidi na dobré a špatné. Lidé jsou okouzlující nebo únavní.

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Lord Darlington, Act I
Zdroj: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Jean Paul Sartre foto

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
Člověk není nic jiného než to, čím se udělá.

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

No Exit (1944)
Varianta: A man is what he wills himself to be.
Zdroj: Existentialism and Human Emotions

Emile Zola foto

“Civilization will not attain perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

Cited as attributed to Zola in The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations : Cutting Comments on Burning Issues (1992) by Charles Bufe, p. 183, but no earlier citation has yet been located, and this appears to be very similar to remarks often attributed to Denis Diderot: "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" and "Let us strangle the last king with the guts of the last priest" — these are loosely derived from a statement Diderot actually did make: "his hands would plait the priest's entrails, for want of a rope, to strangle kings."
This quote appeared in soviet popular-scientific work "Satellite atheist" (Sputnik ateista) http://books.google.ru/books/about/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0.html?id=Lq9AAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y (1959), p. 491.
Disputed

Nikola Tesla foto

“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”
Naše ctnosti a nezdary jsou neoddělitelné, stejně jako síla a hmota. Když se oddělí, člověk už není a nebude.

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor

" The Problem of Increasing Human Energy http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1900-06-00.htm", Century Illustrated Magazine (June 1900)

Fernando Pessoa foto

“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”
Nesu si rány ze všech bitev, kterým jsem se vyhnul.

Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Paulo Coelho foto

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
Když něco opravdu chceš, celý vesmír se spojí, abys to mohl uskutečnit.

Paulo Coelho kniha Alchymista

E quando você quer alguma coisa, todo o Universo conspira para que você realize seu desejo.
Varianta: And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Zdroj: The Alchemist (1988), p. 22; a variant of this has become attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen" — but no occurrence of this a statement has been located prior to in The Gift of Depression : Twenty-one Inspirational Stories Sharing Experience, Strength, and Hope (2001) by John F. Brown, p. 56

Winston S. Churchill foto

“A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
Jednou za mnou přišla jedna paní a řekla: Pane! Jste opilý, na což jsem odpověděl: Dnes jsem opilý, madam, a zítra budu střízlivý, ale vy budete stále ošklivá.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Sören Kierkegaard foto

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Život není problém, který je třeba řešit, ale realita, kterou je třeba zažít.

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Attributed to Kierkegaard in a number of books, the earliest located on Google Books being the 1976 book Jack Kerouac: Prophet of the New Romanticism by Robert A. Hipkiss, p. 83 http://books.google.com/books?id=g_JaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22problem+to+be+solved%22#search_anchor. In the 1948 The Hibbert Journal: Volumes 46-47 the quote is referred to as "the famous Kierkegaardian slogan" on p. 237 http://books.google.com/books?id=UuDRAAAAMAAJ&q=%22the+famous+Kierkegaardian+slogan+life+is+not+a+problem+to+be+solved%22#search_anchor, which may be intended to suggest the phrase is Kierkegaard-esque rather than being something written by Kierkegaard. In reality this seems to be a slightly altered version of the quote "The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved; it is a reality to be experienced" which appeared in the 1928 book The Conquest of Illusion by Jacobus Johannes Leeuw, p. 9 http://books.google.com/books?id=OFdVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22not+a+problem+to+be+solved%22#search_anchor.
Misattributed

“Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men”
Buďte věrní svému povolání být mužem. Skutečným ženám se vždy uleví a budou vděčné, když budou muži ochotni být muži.

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Zdroj: The Mark of a Man

Franz Kafka foto

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
Kniha musí být sekerou pro zamrzlé moře ukryté v nás.

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Letter to Oskar Pollak http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001062.php (27 January 1904)
Variant translations:
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it? Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us.
What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
A book should be an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us.
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Varianta: A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
Kontext: I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?... we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Arthur Rimbaud foto

“I shed more tears than God could ever have required.”
Prolil jsem více slz, nežli by po mě Bůh kdy mohl požadovat.

Arthur Rimbaud kniha Illuminations

Zdroj: Illuminations

Charles Bukowski foto

“There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.”
Vždycky je jedna žena, která tě zachrání před jinou a jakmile tě zachrání, je připravna tě zničit.

Charles Bukowski kniha Love Is a Dog from Hell

Zdroj: Love Is a Dog from Hell

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