Inspirational Sayings

205 sayings found from the Modern era from 205 authors

We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.

— Sam Walton 2005 (att. in 'Why Google Is Like Wal-Mart')
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We must reform our antiquated customs and adopt the strengths of foreign nations.

— Meiji Emperor Late 19th century
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Scepticism is the freedom which thought achieves in itself.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1833-1836 (posthumous)
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If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.

— Benjamin Disraeli Unknown, likely mid-19th century
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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.

— Soren Kierkegaard 1849
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

— Arthur Schopenhauer 1851
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Man is a useless passion.

— Jean-Paul Sartre 1943
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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.

— Simone de Beauvoir 1949
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The work of the philosopher consists in assembling reminders for a particular purpose.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein 1953 (published posthumously)
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It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

— Bertrand Russell 1928
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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

— Albert Camus 1942
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson 1860
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

— Henry David Thoreau 1849
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The most dangerous of all errors is to believe that there is no error.

— Alexis de Tocqueville c. 1830-1850
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

— Ayn Rand 1943
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

— Sigmund Freud 1927
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

— Carl Jung 1963
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The highest possible achievement is to be able to live for the present moment, fully and completely.

— B.F. Skinner Unknown
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

— William James 1895
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The essence of religion is that it is a longing for the impossible.

— Georg Simmel 1911
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