“If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

topic:truth action speech goodness

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

“Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Who's the more foolish… the fool or the fool who follows him?”

― George Lucas, Star Wars

“And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty?”

― Plato, The Republic

“They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my old childlike faith...”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool of you that you will know yourself for one, and so begin to be wise!”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“History . . . is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Every heart has its own skeletons”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Religion, in short, is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

Recommended Topics

pleasure light speech honesty meaning appearance children soul philosophy talking ignorance trust suffering hate imagination living peace weakness dream present

© Copyright 2024 QuoteImageAI