"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."

Aleister Crowley "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley"

Courage and Fear

Truth and Falsity

"There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories."

Ursula K. LeGuin

Art and Culture

Human

"We are but dust and shadow."

Horace "Odes"

Human

"Spring is a true reconstructionist."

Henry Timrod

Nature and Animals

"A man's true character comes out when he's drunk."

Charlie Chaplin

Health and Alcohol

Human

"Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and make no one happy when they are finished."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Italian Journey"

Happiness

Peace and War

"Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."

Gustave Flaubert "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Education

Life and Death

"Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, "I can do no other"."

Heywood Broun

Good and Evil

"Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual."

Patrick Buchanan

God and Religion

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Chinese Proverbs

Question and Problem

Wisdom and Stupidity

"Court Room Trial: Manipulation of the facts by two High-Priced salesmen, each attempting to sell his own version of the truth."

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Law and Crime

Truth and Falsity

"If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else."

Nikki Giovanni "A Dialogue"

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

"Our pleasures are imagined, but our griefs are all real."

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Anger

Joy and Sadness

"France is France and a grand place for Frenchman."

Harry S. Truman

History and Nations

"Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch."

Robert Orben

Sin and Conscience

"One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Memory

"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Youth and Age

"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth."

Ludwig Borne

Reality and Imagination

Truth and Falsity

"It is in great dangers that we see great courage."

Jean Francois Regnard

Courage and Fear

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."

Samuel Butler "The Note-Books of Samuel Butler"

Life and Death

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

Ferris Bueller

Life and Death

"History would be an excellent thing if only it were true."

Lev Tolstoy

History and Nations

"Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. "

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Various

"Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Youth and Age

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isn't."

Mark Twain "Following the Equator"

Reality and Imagination

Truth and Falsity

"They did not know it was impossible, so they did it! "

Mark Twain

Success and Fame

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."

Benjamin Disraeli

Good and Evil

Human

"Love is the beauty of the soul."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Love

"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Knowledge, Ignorance

"If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."

Carl Gustav Jung

Family and Loneliness

"All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life."

M. C. Richards

Art and Culture

Life and Death

"All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in this world is for enough good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke

Good and Evil

"A kind word never broke anyone's mouth."

Irish Proverbs

Manners and Ethics

"I fear no one, but respect everyone."

Roger Federer

Courage and Fear

"Every physician almost hath his favorite disease."

Henry Fielding

Health and Alcohol

"Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known; for others, it depends on never being found out."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Success and Fame

"Instinct is the direct connection with truth."

Laurette Taylor

Truth and Falsity

"Nothing dies harder than a bad idea."

Julia Cameron

Various

"Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Loyalty and Betrayal

Truth and Falsity

Woman and Man

"A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream."

Gaston Bachelard

Art and Culture

Dreams and Desires

"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?"

Vince Lombardi

Success and Fame

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

Mark Twain "Following the Equator"

Joy and Sadness

"Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg "Aphorisms"

Education

"Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less."

Robert E. Lee

Manners and Ethics

Work and Laziness

"There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg "Aphorisms"

God and Religion

Manners and Ethics

"Words express neither objects nor ourselves."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Sayings in Prose"

Oration and Silence

Reality and Imagination

"Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Joy and Sadness

Sorrow and Nostalgia

"Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Happiness

Marriage