Frases e pensamentos de grandes autores

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Where there is great feeling, there is great pain.

Reason cannot prove the things of faith, but it can prove that they are not impossible.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

The poet is a faker. Who so completely fakes, that they even fake the pain, they truly feel as aches.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

I think, therefore I am.

Constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ❤️

The fundamental purpose of our lives is to seek happiness, regardless of our culture or religion.

Political freedom is only possible in the public space of action and speech, where men show themselves to one another in their plurality.

The female body has been the main target on which power relations have been inscribed.

War is a snake that uses our own teeth to bite us.

Man is, by nature, a political animal.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do something beautiful for God.

Love is an act of will — both an intention and an action.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Our life is what our thoughts make of it.

Happiness is a moment of life that is worth it for its own sake.

It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking.

Stand out of my sunlight.

Science is the product of a thought process that refuses the obvious and is built against what is merely perceived.

The ego is not master in its own house.