“Life is there to be lived rather than to be written about.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:life writing living

To create a beautiful custom image, click the button below to use it online for free

“Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what this country has already done, what free men and women can achieve...”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that there is no anatomical or developmental character by which he is more widely distinguished from the group of animals most...”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

“A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.”

― Jack London, White Fang

“The besom of reform has swept him out of office; and a worthier successor wears his dignity, and pockets his emoluments.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

“Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“The man that loves and laughs, must sure do well.”

― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

Recommended Topics

slavery thinking pride choice doubt judgement sorrow fate history independence care responsibility cowardice will waiting control romance killing kindness adventure

© Copyright 2024 QuoteImageAI