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Wisdom

Great thoughts need no noise. Here they stand quietly side by side: a Roman emperor, a wandering preacher, two German thinkers and a nameless book from 1908. Every quotation with its source.

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“You have power over your mind, not over outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“When you wake in the morning, remember what a precious gift it is to be alive: to breathe, to think, to feel, to love.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The soul takes on the color of your thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Very little is needed to live a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“What does not benefit the swarm does not benefit the bee either.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Soon you will have forgotten everything, and soon everyone will have forgotten you.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Do not torment yourself with the future. You will meet it, if you must, with the same reason that serves you in the present.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The best way to avenge yourself: do not become like the one who did the wrong.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Dig within yourself. Within lies the wellspring of good, and it can always flow again if you keep digging.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“People look for retreats: in the country, by the sea, in the mountains. Yet you are free to retreat into yourself at any hour.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Do not live as though you had ten thousand years before you. While you live, while you can: be good.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Sermon on the Mount
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Sermon on the Mount
“So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has trouble enough of its own.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Sermon on the Mount
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Sermon on the Mount
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Gospel of Matthew
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Sermon on the Mount
“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Gospel of John
“Whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Sermon on the Mount
“All things are possible to the one who believes.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Gospel of Mark
“Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Gospel of Luke
“What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?”
Jesus of Nazareth · Gospel of Matthew
“A new commandment I give you: love one another as I have loved you.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Gospel of John
“What does not kill me makes me stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Twilight of the Idols
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Twilight of the Idols
“You must still have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Man is something that shall be overcome.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Twilight of the Idols
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Whoever does not have two thirds of his day for himself is a slave.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Human, All Too Human
“The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So do the minds that are prevented from changing their opinions: they cease to be mind.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Daybreak
“He who fights monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Beyond Good and Evil
“What does your conscience say? You shall become the one you are.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · The Gay Science
“The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem those who think alike above those who think differently.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Daybreak
“Have courage to use your own understanding!”
Immanuel Kant · What Is Enlightenment?
“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-imposed immaturity.”
Immanuel Kant · What Is Enlightenment?
“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
Immanuel Kant · Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
Immanuel Kant · Critique of Practical Reason
“Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never merely as a means.”
Immanuel Kant · Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
“Nothing in the world, nor even beyond it, can possibly be conceived as good without limitation, except a good will.”
Immanuel Kant · Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
“Thinking is speaking with oneself.”
Immanuel Kant · Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
“The beautiful is the symbol of the morally good.”
Immanuel Kant · Critique of Judgment
“Man can only become man through education.”
Immanuel Kant · On Education
“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so many people gladly remain immature for life.”
Immanuel Kant · What Is Enlightenment?
“The All is mind; the universe is mental.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“As above, so below; as below, so above.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of understanding.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“Mind may be transmuted from state to state, degree to degree, pole to pole, vibration to vibration.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“The principles of truth are seven; he who knows and understands them possesses the magic key before whose touch all the doors of the temple fly open.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“To change your mood, set your vibration to the degree you desire.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion