It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

~ Aristotle


This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

~ Saint Augustine




Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

~ Montesquieu




Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

~ Aristotle





In the affairs of the world, men are saved, not by faith, but by the want of it.

~ Benjamin Franklin









The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

~ Aristotle




If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

~ Epicurus




Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

~ Sartre





The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

~ Martin Heidegger





Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

~ Schopenhauer





The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

~ Schopenhauer




For time is the longest distance between two places.

~ Tennessee Williams




Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

~ Nietzsche




May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

~ Kant




Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

~ Rousseau





It is a mark of prudence never to trust wholly in those things which have once deceived us.

~ Descartes




We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

~ Nietzsche





Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

~ Nietzsche





The less men think, the more they talk.

~ Montesquieu





Words are loaded pistols.

~ Sartre






First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

~ Epictetus




Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

~ Epictetus






Life begins on the other side of despair.

~ Sartre




A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

~ Sartre



Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

~ Rousseau




All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

~ Tennessee Williams

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. ~ Plato

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. ~ Spinoza

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

~ Nietzsche

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. ~ Thomas Hobbes

"De que adianta falar de motivos, às vezes basta um só, às vezes nem juntando todos."

José Saramago

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.


~ Epictetus





Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.


~ Voltaire







The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.


~ Confucius







Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!


~ Schopenhauer









A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve.

~ Thomas Paine












Study the past, if you would divine the future.


~ Confucius






The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.

~ Plato



Success has always been a great liar.

~ Nietzsche




Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

~ Plato

"Theology is the science of the divine lie. . . ." ~ Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)

Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

~ Karl Marx





There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

~ Schopenhauer














If we don't know life, how can we know death?

~ Confucius




Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

~ Schopenhauer




Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

~ Aristotle



Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

~ Plato



Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

~ Schopenhauer




Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

~ Nietzsche




The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

~ Nietzsche





What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

~ Montesquieu





Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

~ Friedrich Engels

Em 1970 alguém pediu a Osho que dizesse quais eram os seus 10 mandamentos :

Nunca obedeça a ninguém, a menos que a ordem também venha de dentro de você próprio.

Não existe um Deus além da vida, ela mesma.

A verdade está dentro de você. Não procure em nenhum outro lugar .

Amar é rezar.

Tornar-se um Nada é a porta para a verdade. Insignificância é por si só o meio, a meta e a finalidade.

A vida está aqui e agora.

Viva desperto.

Não nade, flutue.

Morra a cada momento. Assim você poderá estar novo a cada momento.

Nâo busque. Aquilo que é, é. Pare e veja.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

~ Nietzsche

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

~ Sigmund Freud

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

~ Aristotle

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

~ Sartre

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

~ Oscar Wilde

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

~ Nietzsche

Faith is believing something you know ain't true.

~ Mark Twain

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

~ Voltaire

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

~ Nietzsche

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

~ Socrates

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

~ Schopenhauer

A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble

~ Voltaire

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

~ Aristotle

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

~ Plato

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

~ Rousseau

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

~ Friedrich Engels

Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.

~ Sartre

The unexamined life is not worth living.

~ Socrates

Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

~ Spinoza