If your dreams don't scare you they aren’t big enough.
Muhammad Ali 1942 - 2016
1942 - 2016
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I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 - 1832
1749 - 1832
A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.
W. H. Auden 1907 - 1973
1907 - 1973
How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Voltaire 1694 - 1778
1694 - 1778
I Am a Strange Loop
born 1945
Book title : I Am a Strange Loop (2007)
Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
1903 - 1950
Orwell, G. (1949). Nineteen eighty-four. London: Secker & Warburg.
It is as wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his.
Tony Benn 1925 - 2014
1925 - 2014
Be not solitary, be not idle.
Robert Burton 1577 - 1640
1577 - 1640
Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.
Margot Asquith 1864 - 1945
1864 - 1945
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle 384 - 322 BC
384 - 322 BC
There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I conquered in myself what causes war.
Marianne Moore 1887 - 1972
1887 - 1972
The murmuring poor, who will not fast in peace.
George Crabbe 1754 - 1832
1754 - 1832
Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 - 1926
1875 - 1926
I figure I’ll be champ for about ten years and then I’ll let my brother take over – like the Kennedys down in Washington.
Muhammad Ali 1942 - 2016
1942 - 2016
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Roald Dahl 1916 - 1990
1916 - 1990
The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
1932 - 2007
The Illuminatus Trilogy
The really frightening thing about totalitarianism is not that it commits 'atrocities' but that it attacks the concept of objective truth; it claims to control the past as well as the future.
1903 - 1950
As I Please (1943–1947)
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realise our collective dreams.
Terence McKenna 1946 - 2000
1946 - 2000
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
1880 - 1956
Notes on Democracy
Man is what he eats.
Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 - 1872
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1804 - 1872
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The secret to happiness is low expectations.
Barry Schwartz born 1946
born 1946
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
Humanity's greatest battle over the last 10,000 years has been the battle against monopoly.
Terence Kealey born 1952
born 1952
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organisation of the entire tapestry.
Richard Feynman 1918 - 1988
1918 - 1988