Inspirational Sayings

218 sayings found from the Modern era from 218 authors

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 eye cannot endure the sight of the absolute, so it creates a perspective.

— Georg Simmel 1916
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Individual consciousness is only a part of the collective consciousness.

— Emile Durkheim 1912
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

— Simone Weil 1947 (posthumous)
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Hope is an ontological need.

— Paulo Freire 1992
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

— Leo Tolstoy 1889
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Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky 1862
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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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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

— Victor Hugo Approx. 1860s
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We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us.

— Geronimo 1900s
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Sleep is the most innocent creature and the most, therefore, defenseless. When I sleep, I am a stone in the ground.

— Franz Kafka 1922
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I am not a writer. I am a man who writes.

— James Joyce Unknown
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I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am not a woman but a man, for I can think, I can write, I can be a thousand things.

— Virginia Woolf 1926
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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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Write drunk, edit sober.

— Ernest Hemingway 1930s-1950s
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