Confucius

Confucius (6th and 5th Century BCE)

"But if he cannot put himself aright, how can he hope to succeed in putting others right?"

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Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)

"The universe creates its own observers and admirers, and we only wish to intuit how that happens as far as it allows itself to be intuited."

• From Friedrich Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers, translated by Richard Crouter.
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Peter Tudebode

Peter Tudebode (Participant in the First Crusade)

Food complaints written in 1097 around Antioch:
"A small loaf of bread cost a bezant of gold, and of the price of wine I shall not speak; there was not even a jug of it... The belly of one goat was worth two solidi; the tail of a ram varied in price from three to nine denari. The tongue of a camel, which is small, brought four solidi."

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Dionysus

Dionysus from Aristophanes' The Frogs c. 405 BCE

Dionysus asks after Pluto (Hades) as he ushers a soul out of hell:

"Can any of you guys tell me where Pluto happens to dwell? We're Visiting firemen. Never been here before."

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Xunzi (Hsun Tzu)

Xunzi / Hsun Tzu (312 - 230 BCE)

"Music embodies an unchanging harmony, while rites represent unalterable reason. Music unites that which is the same, rites distinguish that which is different; and through the combination of rites and music the human heart is governed."

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Kakuei Tanaka

Kakuei Tanaka (1918-1993)

"Politics is power. Power is numbers."

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Soren Kierkegaard

 

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that which unites all human life is passion, and faith is a passion."

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Sir Winston Churchill

 

Sir Winston Churchill 

"The scales of Justice are vain without her sword. Peace must have her constables."

("How to stop war." 1916)

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Saint Augustine of Hippo

Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE)

"Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable?"

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Plato

 

Plato ( c. 427-347 BCE) 

"But the term 'believers' is inappropriate for those who are devoted to everything that is real: they should be called philosophers, shouldn't they? Absolutely."

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Buddha

 

The Buddha

"Childish, unthinking people

go through life as enemies to themselves,

committing detrimental actions

that bear bitter fruit."

• From The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 5), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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Odin

Odin (from Havamal)

"Cut wood in a wind,

row boats in a breeze,

save sex for the darkness,

the eyes of day are everywhere;

sail a ship for its swiftness,

use a shield for shelter,

use a sword for severing

and a cutie for kissing." 

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Saint Teresa of Avila

 

Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

"I believe that in every little thing created by God there is more than we realize, even in so small a thing as a tiny ant."

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Chuang Tzu

Chuang Tzu (c. 4th Century)

"If we regard a thing as useful because there is a certain usefulness to it, then among all the ten thousand things there are none that are not useful."

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Al-Ghazali

Al-Ghazali (1058-1111 CE)

"One does not point to the light of the sun but, rather, to the sun. In the obvious sense of this example, everything in existence is related to God just as light is related to the sun."

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Confucius

 

Confucius (c. 551-479 BCE)

"Chi Wen Tzu used to think thrice before acting. The Master hearing of it said, Twice is quite enough."

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John Calvin

 

John Calvin (1509-1564)

"I confess, indeed, that I am not poor; for I desire nothing more than what I have."

• From Prefare to the Commentary on the Psalms, by John Calvin, translated by J. Dillenberger (New York: Doubleday, 1971).

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1st Viscount Field Marshal Herbert Plumer

 

Field Marshal Herbert Plumer (1857-1932)

Stated before detonating around 600 tons of explosives:
"Gentlemen, we may not make history tomorrow, but we shall certainly change the geography."

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Isaac Newton

 

Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

"Nature does nothing in vain, and more causes are in vain when fewer suffice. For nature is simple and does not indulge in the luxury of superfluous causes." 

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The Buddha

 

The Buddha (words recorded 3rd century BCE)

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own common sense."

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

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Benjamin Franklin

 

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for every thing one has a mind to do." 

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Marcus Aurelius

 

Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE)

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."

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Sir Thomas More

 

Sir Thomas More (1478-1535 CE)

"To my mind, no amount of property is equivalent to a human life."

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George Bernard Shaw

 

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

 

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."

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Mencius

 

Mencius (372-289 BCE)

"Human nature is good just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good; there is no water that does not flow downwards."

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Gregory of Nazianzus

Gregory of Nazianzus (329-390 CE)

"A man's character is the most persuasive thing of all." 

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Dionysus

 

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

• From The Bacchae, by the poet Euripides.

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Albert Camus

 

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."

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Mencius

 

"Benevolence overcomes cruelty just as water overcomes fire."

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Odin (from Hamaval)

 

"Cattle die,

kin die

self dies too;

a good name,

if you get one, 

goes on forever" 

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