Inspirational Sayings
205 sayings found from the Modern era from 205 authors
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We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.
We must reform our antiquated customs and adopt the strengths of foreign nations.
Scepticism is the freedom which thought achieves in itself.
If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
Man is a useless passion.
The word 'love' has by now been so debased and perverted that it has become almost impossible to use it without a sense of shame.
The work of the philosopher consists in assembling reminders for a particular purpose.
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
The most dangerous of all errors is to believe that there is no error.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
The highest possible achievement is to be able to live for the present moment, fully and completely.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
The essence of religion is that it is a longing for the impossible.