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“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.”
Antoine de Saint Exupery
“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”
Antoine de Saint Exupery
“Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.”
Sigmund Freud
“He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .”
Sigmund Freud
“Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.”
Sigmund Freud
“We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.”
Sigmund Freud
“We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.”
Sigmund Freud
“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.”
Dale Carnegie
“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.”
Dale Carnegie
“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”
Buddha
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”
Buddha
“Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.”
Clare Boothe Luce
“I've never dropped anyone I believed in.”
Marilyn Monroe
“It's all make believe, isn't it?”
Marilyn Monroe
“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
Abraham Lincoln
“If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.”
Stephen Hawking
“I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.”
Stephen Hawking
“A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.”
Horace
“As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.”
Plato
“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
Plato
“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”
Plato
“The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.”
Plato
“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”
Aristotle
“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”
Aristotle
“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”
Aristotle
“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”
Aristotle
“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”
Honore de Balzac
“Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.”
Honore de Balzac
