Inspirational Sayings

205 sayings found from the Modern era from 205 authors

The most important thing in life is to have a common purpose.

— Emile Durkheim 1893
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The great error of the French Revolution was to believe that one could create a good society by decree.

— Simone Weil 1949 (posthumous)
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Hope is an ontological need.

— Paulo Freire 1992
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All governments are in their essence a more or less disguised conspiracy against the people, for the purpose of extorting money from them.

— Leo Tolstoy 1894
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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880
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I don't believe in the existence of a single human being who is not a rascal.

— Charles Dickens 1860
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

— Victor Hugo 1862
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

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

— James Joyce 1914
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

— George Orwell 1949
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

— Aldous Huxley 1958
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I still believe that man's highest purpose is to become a man.

— Ernest Hemingway 1950s
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I’m not a romantic, I’m a realist. I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in right now.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald Unknown
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez Unknown
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Every man should be capable of all ideas and I believe that in the future he will be.

— Jorge Luis Borges 1962
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

— Oscar Wilde 1897
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I'm a believer in the literal word. I think it's the literal word that counts.

— Robert Frost 1960
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I have seen visions and dreamed dreams, and I have believed in them all.

— William Butler Yeats 1926
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I am a dreamer, and I dream in words.

— Pablo Neruda Unknown
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The world rushes on, and I am left behind, a solitary wanderer, dreaming of the past.

— Rabindranath Tagore early 20th century
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