General Sayings

460 sayings found from 460 authors

The imagination is nothing but decaying sense.

— Thomas Hobbes 1651
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Absoluteness of power is the most seductive of all illusions.

— John Stuart Mill 1861
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I'm not a prophet. I'm just a historian.

— Michel Foucault Unknown
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If you want to achieve something, you build a structure. If you want to prevent something, you mess it up.

— Noam Chomsky Unknown
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No one has the right to obey.

— Hannah Arendt 1964 (lecture)
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

— Marcus Aurelius c. 161-180 AD
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

— Seneca c. 65 AD
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When you have decided that you are going to take a bath, be careful how you act, and don't make a scene.

— Epictetus c. 108 AD
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Never venture, never win!

— Sun Tzu c. 5th century BC
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Men are always more easily deceived when they are trying to deceive others.

— Machiavelli 1531
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The English are busy; they have no time to be polite.

— Montesquieu 1729-1731 (published posthumously)
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Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

— Adam Smith 1776
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The being who will not reason is a bigot; the being who cannot reason is a fool; and the being who dares not reason is a slave.

— Mary Wollstonecraft 1792
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson 1839
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

— Henry David Thoreau 1849
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An ounce of action is worth a pound of theory.

— Friedrich Engels 1883
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The government is not a babysitter.

— Ayn Rand 1959
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Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them, and psychiatrists collect the rent.

— Sigmund Freud Approx. mid-20th century
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I would rather be whole than good.

— Carl Jung 1944
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We are what we have been rewarded for being.

— B.F. Skinner 1969
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