112 Quotations Found

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society

You can recognize a deep truth by the feature that its opposite is also a deep truth.

Author: Frank Wilczek | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight

So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

Author: John Stuart Mill | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism. Where there is least liberty, the passion for power is the most ardent and unscrupulous.

Author: John Stuart Mill | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Concepts, Freedom | Liberty, Insight, Life & Society, Power

We inaccurately assume that what is common practice represents objective truths about the world, as opposed to being deliberately created and perpetuated because it benefits certain groups.

Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Intelligence | Knowledge, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

One group has power. They justify that power as being natural in order to keep it. That idea of naturalness becomes part of the cultural rhetoric and becomes the lens through which the powerless are viewed. The powerless struggle to change because before they can attain rights they have to change the cultural narrative.

Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Power, Psychology | Behavior

We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing.

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life … [ Read more ]

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure

There’s no inspiration in logic. There’s no courage in logic. There’s not even happiness in logic. There’s only satisfaction.

Author: Albert E.N. Gray | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Insight, Inspiration, Motivation, Psychology | Behavior

The most ominous of fallacies — the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.

Author: Freya Stark | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

Author: Dan Millman | Subjects: Concepts, Freedom | Liberty, Insight, Life & Society

The future is not someplace we are going to, but a place we are creating. The paths to it are not found, they are made.

Author: Jane Garvey | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

The price that man pays for consciousness is insecurity. He can stand his insecurity by being aware and accepting the human condition, and by the hope that he will not fail even though he has no guarantee for success.

Author: Erich Fromm | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Hope, Insight, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

Hope — and the wise, effective action that can spring from it — is the counterweight to the heavy sense of our own fragility. It is a continual negotiation between optimism and despair, a continual negation of cynicism and naïveté. We hope precisely because we are aware that terrible outcomes are always possible and often probable, but that the choices we make can impact the … [ Read more ]

Author: Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Hope, Insight, Life & Society

Tarde o temprano aprenderemos que los amores más grandes pueden terminar en una sola noche. Que los mejores amigos pueden transformarse en grandes desconocidos y que éstos pueden convertirse en grandes amigos.

Tarde o temprano, aprenderemos que nunca terminamos de conocer a alguien, ni siquiera a nosotros mismos. Que el ”nunca más” nunca se cumple, y que el ”para siempre” siempre se termina.

Tarde o temprano, … [ Read more ]

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Concepts, Freedom | Liberty, Happiness, Insight, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

People are disturbed, not by things (that happen to them), but by the principles and opinions which they form concerning (those) things. When we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles and opinions.

Author: Epictetus | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Author: Nelson Mandela | Subjects: Insight, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

Author: Dalai Lama | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

The ideologue believes that what is right works, but the pragmatist believes instead that what works is right.

Author: Mark Shields | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior