Favourite Quotes

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. - Gautama Buddha

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. - W. Somerset Maugham

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. - Baruch Spinoza

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; / There is a rapture on the lonely shore; / There is society, where none intrudes, / By the deep sea, and music in its roar; / I love not man the less, but Nature more... / - Lord Byron

We like someone because. We love someone although. - Henri de Montherlant 

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan

Imagination is the highest form of research. - Albert Einstein

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. - Oscar Wilde

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you. - Friedrich Nietzsche

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. - Friedrich Nietzsche

You should never ask anyone for anything, especially from those who are more powerful than yourself. - Mikhail Bulgakov, ‘The Master and Margarita’

There are no facts, only interpretations. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire. - Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. – Baruch Spinoza

It is some basic certainty which the noble soul has about itself, something which does not allow itself to be sought out or found or perhaps even to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau

I am free and that is why I am lost. I am a cage, in search of a bird. - Franz Kafka 

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” - Jack Kerouac