Quotes About Life

Charisma knows only inner determination and inner restraint…. The charismatic leader gains and maintains authority solely by proving his strength in life.

Naïve optimists have celebrated science – that is to say: the techniques of mastering life that are based on science – as the road to happiness; but I think I may be allowed to ignore this [idea] completely, in view of Nietzsche's devastating criticism of those "ultimate men" who have "invented happiness". Who believes it, apart from a few overgrown children occupying academic or editorial chairs?

Because death is meaningless, civilised life as such is meaningless.

One may attain salvation in any walk of life; on

Consequently, if one's luck is bad, one is liable to be increasingly consumed by feelings of resentment toward the agent or agents that one holds responsible for one's victimhood, and this twisting of one's soul in bitterness is a form of damage that the acknowledgment of the real conditions of academic life could have helped one to avoid or, at the very least, mitigate.

o capitalismo atual, que se desenvolveu a ponto de dominar a vida econômica, educa e seleciona os sujeitos econômicos de que precisa por um processo de sobrevivência econômica dos mais bem adaptados.

Tolstoi has given the simplest answer, with the words: 'Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: "What shall we do and how shall we live?"' That science does not give an answer to this is indisputable. The only question that remains is the sense in which science gives 'no' answer, and whether or not science might yet be of use to the one who puts the question correctly.

The Quaker ethic also holds that a man's life in his calling is an exercise in ascetic virtue, a proof of his  state of grace through his conscientiousness, which is expressed in the care  and method with which he pursues his calling. What

The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe can never be the products of increasing empirical knowledge, and that the highest ideals, which move us most forcefully, are always formed only in the struggle with other ideals which are just as sacred to others as ours are to us.

The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.

One of the things which has been and is going to be of key importance before, during, and after the pandemic is total transparency. Thanks to total transparency, business, and life itself, is becoming more ethical, better organized, and make more sense.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

You're too young to decide to live forever.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

Because joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

To choose is to age." Who said that? Who cares? I pictured myself taking a right, then a left, then a right again.

There are no wizards and no spells. Just men and women and money and the earth the way it always was.

Will you tell me how a man's to live, and face his life, if he can't believe that truth's like a fire, and will burn through and be seen though it takes all the years there are? While I stand up and have breath in my lungs I shall be one flame of that fire; it's all the life I have.

Oh, it's a long, long while From May to December, But the days grow short, When you reach September.

Your life is a minor rhapsody for flute and violin.

Because the gliding search of our life Is lacking in one quality, amusement, We shall often return To evenings, men, and walls of stone.