Inspirational Sayings

The greatest humbug of all is the man who believes—or pretends to believe—that everything and everybody are humbugs.

Everything begins with reproduction. If we are to believe in the absolute beginning of the absolute, it must be the reproduction of the absolute.

The Internet has the potential to transform the public sphere, but also to fragment it.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Anyone who believes in magic is a fool.

I can’t believe how much time people waste on things that don’t matter.

The great error of the French Revolution was to believe that one could create a good society by decree.

Hope is an ontological need.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

The sage does not seek to change the world, but to change himself.

He who is without compassion is not a man.

A good general does not fight with his troops, but with his strategy. A good king does not govern with his strength, but with his virtue.

We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

All governments are in their essence a more or less disguised conspiracy against the people, for the purpose of extorting money from them.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

I don't believe in the existence of a single human being who is not a rascal.

I forgive the Christians of Jerusalem, for they have fought bravely.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.