General Sayings

189 sayings found from the Modern era from 189 authors

No one has the right to obey.

— Hannah Arendt 1964 (lecture)
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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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The world is a bad master, and it does not pay to serve it.

— William James 1867
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The oppressed know that they are oppressed, but they do not know the causes of their oppression.

— Paulo Freire 1968
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I often think that the only way to be happy is to be ignorant.

— Leo Tolstoy 1862
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Beauty will save the world.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869
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My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day. Procrastination is the thief of time.

— Charles Dickens 1850
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I do not want to be a man. I wish to be a woman, and to be as agreeable as a woman can be.

— Jane Austen 1801
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As the cat said to the rat, 'Don't make me laugh!'

— Victor Hugo 1862
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Humor is a good way of making people laugh.

— Franz Kafka 1920
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My mind is a storehouse of facts, a lumber room of oddities.

— James Joyce 1916
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I detest the actively good. It is the passively good who do the least harm.

— Virginia Woolf 1927
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In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

— George Orwell Approx. 1940s
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Churches, temples, mosques, synagogues and the like are not for the people. They are for the priests, for the clergy.

— Aldous Huxley Unknown
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