Inspirational Sayings
218 sayings found from the Modern era from 218 authors
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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 eye cannot endure the sight of the absolute, so it creates a perspective.
Individual consciousness is only a part of the collective consciousness.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Hope is an ontological need.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
I don't believe in the existence of a single human being who is not a rascal.
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us.
Sleep is the most innocent creature and the most, therefore, defenseless. When I sleep, I am a stone in the ground.
I am not a writer. I am a man who writes.
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.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Write drunk, edit sober.