Aphorisms

Ok, una singola frase non racchiude una filosofia e talvolta è più spettacolare che vera ma spesso fa pensare o almeno sorridere.

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
David Bohm

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski

Appear weak when you are strong. And strong when you are weak.
Sun Tzu

Because in the end you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb the goddamn mountain.
Jack Kerouac

Being male is a matter of birth, being a man is a matter of age, but being a gentleman is a matter of choice.

Birds born in a cage, think flying is an illness.
Alejandro Jodorowsky

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Benjamin Franklin

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
Albert Camus

Can you remember you you were, before the world told you who you should be?
Charles Bukowski

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.
Victor Hugo

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
Alexander Woollcott

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Hell is other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre

How easy it is, Doctor, to be a philosopher on paper, and how difficult in real life!
Anton Chekhov

I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde

I found the key to happiness: surround yourself with animals and stay away from idiots.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Winston Churchill

I think the evil doesn’t exist, but man has created him in his own image and likeness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attend with my real face.
Franz Kafka

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell

If it costs you the peace, it is too expensive.
Paulo Coelho

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul Sartre

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul Sartre

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleone Bonaparte

It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.
Pyotr Kropotkin

Linus: “we only live once, Snoopy”. Snoopy: “Wrong! We only die once, we live every day!”

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
Aldous Huxley

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
Adam Smith

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus

Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast, you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Eddie Cantor

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

The best way you can predict your future is to create it
S.Covey

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live. Moreover, the only one.
E. M. Cioran

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
Lao Tzu

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
Soren Kierkegaard

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Henrik Ibsen

There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.
Albert Camus

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde

We come into this world crying, while those around us smile. We leave this world smiling, while those around us cry.
Confucius, 460 b.c.

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.
Carl Jung