| 3869 |
Independence isn't doing your own thing; it's doing the right thing on your own |
Kim John Payne |
| 3868 |
I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the re |
Kinky Friedman |
| 3867 |
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3866 |
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3865 |
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is th |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3864 |
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their c |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3863 |
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3862 |
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because h |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3861 |
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationa |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3860 |
I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life a |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3859 |
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good gr |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3858 |
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3857 |
If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, bl |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3856 |
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make i |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3855 |
The secret of happiness is this: let your interest be as wide as possible and l |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3854 |
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3853 |
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3852 |
When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3851 |
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3850 |
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3848 |
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3847 |
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3846 |
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more ev |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3845 |
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their ow |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3844 |
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3843 |
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searchin |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3842 |
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues. |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3841 |
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an une |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3840 |
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3839 |
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certai |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3838 |
War does not determine who is right - only who is left. |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3837 |
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3836 |
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the long |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3835 |
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem wort |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3834 |
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3833 |
It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you. |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3832 |
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesit |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3831 |
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3830 |
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3829 |
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3828 |
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still m |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3827 |
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3826 |
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of ha |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3825 |
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid s |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3824 |
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3823 |
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people' |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3822 |
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoo |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3821 |
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one&r |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3820 |
Beware the man of a single book. |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3819 |
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of inte |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3818 |
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3817 |
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should s |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3816 |
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, co |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3815 |
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead. |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3814 |
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3813 |
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happi |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3812 |
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, tha |
Bertrand Russell |
| 3811 |
As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 3810 |
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 3809 |
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a c |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 3808 |
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creat |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 3807 |
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 3806 |
Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 3805 |
What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 3804 |
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 3803 |
A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have i |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3802 |
Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man. |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3801 |
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only te |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3800 |
Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if y |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3799 |
The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate. |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3798 |
What's dead may never die. |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3797 |
Laughter is poison to fear. |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3796 |
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's serv |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3795 |
Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same. |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3793 |
Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live. |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3792 |
Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word. |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3791 |
They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth. |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3790 |
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3789 |
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man' |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3788 |
Sleep is good, he said, And books are better. |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3787 |
Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3785 |
Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3784 |
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. |
George R.R. Martin |
| 3782 |
I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. |
Robert Frost |
| 3781 |
Good fences make good neighbors. |
Robert Frost |
| 3780 |
Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world. |
Robert Frost |
| 3779 |
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful |
Robert Frost |
| 3778 |
A good book has no ending |
Robert Frost |
| 3777 |
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. |
Robert Frost |
| 3776 |
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of hi |
Robert Frost |
| 3775 |
How many things would you attempt
If you knew you could not fail |
Robert Frost |
| 3774 |
I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school. |
Robert Frost |
| 3773 |
Oh, come forth into the storm and rout
And be my love in the rain. |
Robert Frost |
| 3772 |
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting. |
Robert Frost |
| 3771 |
You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could w |
Robert Frost |
| 3770 |
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you? |
Robert Frost |
| 3769 |
Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the wor |
Robert Frost |
| 3768 |
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has g |
Robert Frost |
| 3767 |
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I woul |
Robert Frost |
| 3766 |
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out. |
Robert Frost |