Strange & Unusual Sayings

565 sayings found

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

— Baruch Spinoza 1677
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1710
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

— Francis Bacon 1620
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I am a living demonstration of the fact that a man can remain a virgin until he is 30, and yet be a man.

— Soren Kierkegaard 1849
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Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other.

— Francisco Pizarro c. 1520s-1530s
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I am not afraid of the darkness. Real death is preferable to a life without living.

— Vasco da Gama c. 1490s-1520s
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Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

— Ibn Battuta c. 1350s
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It's hard to get in sync because of all the fu**ing Mormons out here giving me the finger.

— Dennis Rodman 1997
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A frightened dog barks louder.

— Kim Jong-un 2017
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The world is hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 (posthumous publication of some parts)
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

— Jean-Paul Sartre 1946
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, too resourceful for anyone to be able to satisfy me sensibly.

— Simone de Beauvoir 1947
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Where there is power, there is resistance.

— Michel Foucault 1976
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and terrorists, the more you control all the people.

— Noam Chomsky 1992
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

— Hannah Arendt 1951
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I have had this Dhamma edict written so that my sons and great-grandsons should not think of making new conquests.

— Ashoka the Great c. 257 BCE
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The meaning of a word is its use in the language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein 1953 (published posthumously)
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

— Bertrand Russell Approx. 1930s-1950s
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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

— Albert Camus 1942
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

— Epicurus c. 300 BCE
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