- „Earth is man plus desires.“ – Indian philosopher
- „There is only one perspective seeing, only one perspective „cognizing“; and the more affects we let speak about a thing, the more eyes, different eyes we know to use for the same thing, the more complete will be our „concept“ of this thing, our „objectivity“.“ – Friedrich Nietzsche
- „He who looks outward dreams and he who looks inward awakens.“ – Carl Gustav Jung
- „What you love, you will be transformed into.“ – unknown
- „For the one who has realized the true nature of the world, the actual world no longer has any meaning.“ – Arthur Schopenhauer
- „Journalism means bringing something that others want you not to bring, everything else is PR.“ – George Orwell
- If you pretend to make people think, they love you. Those who really make them think, they hate.“ _ Aldous Huxley
- „There is no more convincing argument than doing it yourself.“ – Rosa Parks
- „Democracy is nothing but a beating down of the people by the people for the people.“ – Oscar Wilde
- „You have to know until where you can go too far.“ – Billy Wilder
- „The experiences gathered by one generation are generally useless for the following one, therefore there is no point in citing historical evidence as events.“ – Gustave Le Bon
- „If elections changed anything, they would be banned.“ – Kurt Tucholsky
- „It’s all been said, just not by everyone yet.“ – Karl Valentin
- „Someone who does not even know that there is something to know and understand is convinced that the limits of his knowledge and understanding are the limits of knowledge and understanding par excellence and therefore others cannot know or understand more than he does.“ – Rainer Mausfeld
- „In order to know who rules over you, all you need to do is find out who you are not allowed to criticize.“ – Voltaire
- „The path to the summit is like the path to oneself – a solo journey.“ – Alessandro Gogna
- „The conscious personality disappears, the feelings and thoughts of all are oriented in the same direction. In the community soul, the dissimilarity sinks into the similarity, and the unconscious qualities prevail.“ – Gustave Le Bon
- „The path to the summit is like the path to oneself, lonely.“ – Alessandro Gogna
- „Only those who go their own way can become truly happy.“ – Unknown
- „After each up I am another down. You are never really on top.“ – Reinhard Karl (mountaineer)
- „Your task is not to look for love, but to find in yourself all the barriers that have been erected against it. … then, according to my thinking, it goes by itself, … if the chemistry is right.“ – Rumi
- „It’s especially hard to stay silent when you have nothing to say.“ – Coco Chanel
- „I may condemn what you say, but I will give my life to let you say it.“ – Voltaire
- „Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something has meaning, no matter how it turns out.“ – Vaclav Havel
- „Only from the heart can you touch heaven.“ – Rumi
- „Everything has a good end for the one who can wait.“ – Leo N. Tolstoi
- „Being yourself in a world that constantly wants you to be different is the greatest achievement.“ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- „The revolution that takes place in your head, no one will ever see.“ – Gil Scott-Heron
- „I meditate not to become more or to gain something. But to loose everything that I am not. And in doing so I realize that I am nothing. Nothing becomes everything and I am free.“ – Unknown
- „Beauty is more effective than all recommendations.“ – Aristotle
- „Morality is when you live in such a way that it is no fun at all to live that way.“ – Edith Piaf
- „Only the stupid ones are at peace with themselves.“ – Martin Seel
- „The loudest of all are those who have nothing to say.“ Gisbert zu Knyphausen
- „It was not by making oneself heard, but by keeping oneself intact, that one passed on the heritage of humanity.“ – George Orwell
- „I no longer fear anything. Arm in arm with you. Thus, I put my century in its place.“ – Friedrich Schiller
- „Between the strong and the weak, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it is freedom that oppresses and the law that liberates. “ – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- „Everything is good. Everything. Man is unhappy because he does not know that he is happy. Only because of that. That’s all, everything! Whoever realizes this will be happy right away, at once, at the same moment.“ – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- „A day is enough to establish that a man is evil; it takes a lifetime to establish that he is good.“ – Théodore Jouffroy
- „I see that it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes.“ – Oscar Wilde
- „War is bad in that it makes more bad people than it takes away theirs.“ – Immanuel Kant
- „Everyone’s private motto: It’s better to be popular than to be right.“ – Mark Twain
- „I swear to you … To be too conscious of oneself is a disease, a real disease.“ – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- „It is difficult to make a man understand something when his salary is based on not understanding it.“ – Upton Sinclair
- „When Zarathustra had spoken these words, he looked again at the people and was silent. „There they stand they,“ he said to his heart, „there they laugh: they do not do not understand me, I am not the mouth for these ears.“ – Friedrich Nietzsche
- „Do you know how to make God laugh? Tell him your plans.“ – Blaise Pascal
- „The fact is that the person who wants to achieve freedom has already failed the moment he asks those in power for freedom.“ – Larken Rose
- „I know that I know nothing and some do not even know this. God does not play dice.“ – Einstein
- „What you win by force, you can only keep by force.“ – Gandhi
- „Whoever speaks the truth in democracy is killed by the masses.“ – Plato
- „Freedom is always the freedom of those who think differently.“ – Rosa Luxembourg
- „If you want to know a man’s character, give him money.“ – Abraham Lincoln
- „Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth, because that would destroy their whole illusion.“ – Friedrich Schiller
- „Tolerance is, above all, the realization that there is no point in getting upset.“ – Ambrose Gwinnet Bierce
- „In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.“ – Coco Chanel
- „Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.“ – Jean Paul
- „Some people want to shine, although they have no clue.“ – Erhardt Heinz
- „Criticism of others has never spared anyone in his own achievement.“ – Noël Coward
- „I can’t tell you how to get rich quick; but I can tell you how to get poor quick: namely, by trying to get rich quick.“ – André Kostolany
- „Every problem goes through three stages before it is recognized: In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second it is fought against, in the third it is taken for granted.“ – Arthur Schopenhauer
- „Let us be thankful for the fools, for without them we could not win.“ – Mark Twain
- „The way someone does things is the direct result of the way they think about things.“ – Wallace Wattles
- „The punches that don’t hit are the ones that wear you out.“ – Angelo Dundee
- „The happiness of those who want to be famous depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods that cannot control themselves; but the happiness of wise people arises from what they do voluntarily.“ – Marcus Aurelius
- „He who knows nothing of the goal cannot have the way, will trot in the same circle, all his life.“ – Christian Morgenstern
- „With the help of my senses, I make experiences, my mind forms ideas from them, and my reason helps me to classify and evaluate them. But I don’t know anything about what lies completely outside my sensual world of experience.“ – Unknown
- „The slowest, who does not lose sight of his goal, still goes faster than the one who wanders around without a goal.“ – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- „The art of living is the art of leaving out the right things. It starts with talking and ends with cleavage.“ – Coco Chanel
- „Pleasure is not divisible; like pain, it can only be experienced or given, and when we give pleasure to the beloved and pity to the needy, it is not for the sake of the object of our kindness, but for our own sake. The truth is that we are kind and cruel for the same reason, namely, to increase the sense of our own power.“ – Aldous Huxley
- „Most often, people give up their power by believing they have none.“ – Alice Walker
- „The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.“ – Henry David Thoreau
- „If we think in a conservative worldview, communication is hierarchically structured. You don’t discuss what to do and why with your children on an equal footing – you dictate it to them.“ – George Lakoff
- „No word can be thought, pronounced, and processed outside of frames. Whenever you hear a word, a frame is activated in your head.“ – Elizabeth Wehling
- „Failure is essentially irrelevant unless it is catastrophic.“ – Unknown
- „Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.“ – Rumi
- „The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.“ – Sokrates
- “We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.” – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
- „The further a society moves away from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.“ – Unknown
- „Nothing in life is as important as you thinkg it is when you are thinking.“ – Daniel Kahneman
- „I have said it many times: all the unhappiness of people comes from the fact that they cannot stay quietly in one room.“ – Blaise Pascal
- „If you are looking for me, look for me in your heart. If I have found a place to stay there, I will always be with you.“ – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- „How do we move to a greater level of consciousness? Simply by not reacting to our environment; by learning how to pause, self-regulate and wait for the chemicals to settle down before we act. This is how we outgrow victimization, judgement, competition or the need to gossip or misrepresent someone else.“ – Joe Dispenza
- „We are thinking substance, and thinking substance always takes the form of that which it thinks about.“ – Unknown
- „Das unsere Welt in Deutschland zu existieren aufgehört hat, brauche ich Ihnen wohl nicht zu sagen. Und daher: Werde ich erst amal das Maul halten. Gegen einen Ozean pfeift man nicht an.“ – Kurt Tucholsky
- „Ich habe über das, was da geschehen ist, nicht eine Zeile veröffentlicht – auf alle Bitten hin nicht. Es geht mich nichts mehr an. Es ist nicht Feigheit – was dazu schon gehört, in diesen Käseblättern zu schreiben! Aber ich bin au-dessus de la mêlée, es geht mich nichts mehr an. Ich bin damit fertig.“ – Kurt Tucholsky
- „The smart one learns from everything and from everyone, the normal one from his experiences and the stupid one knows everything better.“ – Sokrates
- „It is a law of nature that the same causes always produce the same effects.“ – Wallace Wattles
- „The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.“ – Coco Chanel
- „If people only talked about what they understood, the world would be very quiet.“ – Albert Einstein
- „The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.“ – Osho
- „The soul grows when reading good books.“ – Voltaire
- „Anything that goes against nature will not last in the long run.“ – Charles Darwin
- „Only when a mosquito lands on your testicles will you learn to solve problems without violence.“ – Konfuzius
- „I think that good and evil are not decided in the intercourse of people with each other, but exclusively in the intercourse of people with themselves.“ – Jakob Wassermann
- „Whether or not I want to behave morally is a matter of self-respect.“ – Unknown
- „The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them and venture a little into the realm of the impossible.“ – Arthur C. Clarke
- „For by seeking to realize himself with the gifts given to him by nature, a man does the highest and only meaningful thing he can.“ – Hermann Hesse
- „The world cannot be improved if everyone blindly follows the majority. It needs people who have the courage to question the seemingly irrevocable, who dare to question authority and use their own brains.“ – Mahatma Gandhi
- „Always telling the truth probably won’t get you many friends, but it will get you the right ones.“ – John Lennon
- „Luck is what happens when preparations meets opportunity.“ – Seneca
- „Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.“ – Albert Einstein
- „I fear three newspapers more than 100,000 bayonets.“ – Napoleon Bonaparte
- „Fashion fades, only style remains the same.“ – Coco Chanel
- „He who does not have two-thirds of his day to himself is a slave.“ – Friedrich Nietzsche
- „In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain: either you get further up today or you exercise your strength to be able to climb higher tomorrow.“ – Friedrich Nietzsche
- „The noblest way to gain knowledge is through reflection and deliberation. The simplest is through imitation, and the most bitter is through experience.“ – Buddha
- „The children’s minds are suffocated under a ballast of useless knowledge.“ – Voltaire
- „If you want to be intelligent, you can’t be in politics. Politics needs idiots, people who can lie, people who can continue to lie, people with double faces, people who can change their personality at any moment. They have no individuality at all. If you want to be intelligent, you can’t be in politics.“ – Osho
- „An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with idiots.“ – Ernest Hemingway
- „As a young climber, it is undeniable that I have been manipulated by the media and popular culture and that some of my own climbs have been subconsciously shaped through what the world perceives to be important in terms of sport. Through time spent in the mountains, away from the crowds, away from the stopwatch, and the grades, and all the lists of records, I’ve been slowly able to pick apart what is important to me and discard things that are not.“ – Marc-Andre Leclerc
- „As always, when one had the courage to openly search for himself, the other came with his damned morals.“ – Max Frisch
- „You have to be trained to live on mountains – to see the pathetic contemporary chatter of politics and people’s yearning beneath you.“ – Friedrich Nietzsche
- „There is a principle that serves as a barrier against any information, as evidence against any argument, and that can never fail to keep people in perpetual ignorance. This principle is called: conviction before investigation.“ – Herbert Spencer
- „I thank my God for letting me be a man of desire all my life.“ Toni Egger
- „Certainly the most courageous are those who have the clearest idea of what awaits them, whether in terms of fame or in terms of the danger they face.“ – Thukydides
- „Those who have climbed in the mountains must be careful not to think that the danger of their situation is greater than it is.“ – Friedrich Nietzsche
- „We do not know, but we can guess, how many people, recognizing their growing inability to bear the burden of life under modern conditions, would willingly submit to a system that, along with self-determination, takes away your responsibility for your own life.“ – Hannah Arendt
- „Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry.“ – Unknown
- „War is not there to be won, it is there to be perpetual.“ – George Orwell
- „The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.“ – Coco Chanel
- „He who controls the media controls the mind“ – Jim Morrison
- „People who think their government cares about them probably also think strippers love them“ – Unknown
- „This and nothing else is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears, he is a protector.“ – Plato
- „He who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.“ – Voltaire
- „A nation of sheep will produce a government of wolves“ – Edward R. Murrow
- „People define themselves by comparing themselves with others. By far the largest part of this comparison happens spontaneously and unconsciously.“ Unknown
- „I would rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers that cannot be questioned.“ – Richard P. Feynman
- „To dare something means to temporarily lose one’s footing. To dare nothing means to lose oneself.“ – Søren Kierkegaard
- „Ownership of the media is always in the hands of the perpetrators.“ – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- „Governments will use whatever technology is available to them to fight their main enemy – their own population.“ – Noam Chomsky
- „The good of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.“ – Albert Camus
- „It is easier to deceive people than to convince them that they have been deceived.“ – Mark Twain
- „Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.“ – C. S. Lewis
- „The urge to save humanity is almost always a false pretext for the urge to dominate it.“ – H.L. Mencken
- „The world will conspire to distract you.“ – Unknown
- „If we think about it, we don’t know who we are. And when we represent ourselves, we draw wishful images. We put on masks. Man shows his only in his actions. So I tell what I do so that others can understand who I am.“ – Unknown
- „Politically irrelevant human capital must transform its objective economic exploitation into self-exploitation and optimize its external exploitability by the free market.“ – Franz W. Seiwert
- „Disappointment is only possible where deception has existed. Therefore, disappointment, however painful it may be, is always a step towards the truth, a valuable liberation from error and illusion.“ – Unknown
- „We have to commit terrorist attacks from time to time in which uninvolved people die. In this way, the entire state and the entire population can be directed. The primary target of such an attack is not the dead, but the survivors, because they have to be guided and influenced.“ – Vincenzo Vinciguerra
- „One inserts an illusory world between man and his environment. His behavior is a reaction to this illusory world. But because it is behavior, the consequences […] do not operate in the illusory world […], but In the actual environment […]“ – Walter Lippmann
- „The person who only lives for the joys of the mind lives only partially and will never be satisfied with their fate.“ – Unknown
- „The public must be put in its place, so that we are not affected by the trampling and clamor of the confused herd impaired.“ – Walter Lippmann
- „An inwardly free and conscientious man can be destroyed, but not made a slave or a blind tool.“ – Albert Einstein
- „It is difficult to make someone understand something when he gets his salary for not understanding it.“ – Upton Sinclair
- „The self-destruction of the Sahib goes so far, that he wants to know everything and sees nothing that he believes only in technology that he divides everywhere and all the time that he seeks the masses out of fear of loneliness and there he becomes lonely. That he silences death and always thinks, thinks, thinks […]“ – Dawa Tensing
- People are nicer than they look, but you have to go first. This made me think of a line from a fictional character Raylan Givens in the TV series Justified: „If you run up into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you ran into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.“ – Raylan Givens
- „Des Menschen Wille ist sein Himmelreich.“ – Manfred Horst Petsch
- „The best things in life are free. The second best are really expensive.“ – Coco Chanel
- „Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.“ – Brooks Atkinson
- „You must want true life, not just the pure pleasure of sensual gratification. Life is the performance of functions, and the individual is truly alive only when he performs every physical, mental and spiritual function of which he is capable in a balanced measure.“ – Wallace Wattles
- “If nothing matters, there’s nothing to save.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
- „In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm … in the real world all rests on perseverance.“ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- „The real understanding comes only when one is able to look into one’s own heart. Whoever looks outward dreams; whoever looks inward awakens.“ – C. G. Jung
- „The way someone does things is a direct result of the way they think about things.“ – Unknown
- „Power cannot be where there is no powerlessness.“ – Erich Mühsam
- „The tendency of life consists in the transcendence of death. Because death is an illusion.“ – Hans-Peter Dürr
- „I’m tired of earth, these people. I’m tired of being caught in the tangle of their lifes.“ – Dr. Manhatten
- „We all want to put our ego in power in this system.“ – Jonathan Meese
- „The mind is nothing but the spokesman of the brain, eloquently justifying what our feeling has long since decided.“ – Unknown
- „You are not right or wrong because you think like the masses – you are right when the facts are on your side and your conclusions are correct.“ – Benjamin Graham
- „The perfect dictatorship will have the appearance of a democracy, a prison without walls, where the prisoners do not even dream of breaking out. It is a system of slavery where the slaves develop their love for slavery thanks to consumption and entertainment.“ – Aldous Hauxley
- „Once can happen, twice is coincidence, three times is foreign influence.“ – Ian Fleming
- „Advertising is the art of aiming for the head and hitting the wallet.“ – Vance Packard
- „He who is brave is free.“ – Seneca
- „The question is not who allows me to do something. The question is, who wants to stop me?“ – Ayn Rand
- „Those who take themselves too seriously are no longer taken seriously.“ – Confucius
- „The downfall of a civilization begins with the loss of its credibility.“ – Unknown
- „No plan survives enemy contact.“ – Helmuth von Moltke
- „The history of medicine is a history of errors.“ – Bernhard Aschner
- „You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions.“ – Sven Lindqvist
- „It is easier to believe a lie you hear a thousand times than the truth you hear only once.“ – Abraham Lincoln
- „Get involved in a partnership only if you are sure that you can live alone, but do not live alone because you are afraid of partnership.“ – Hans-Joachim Maaz
- „Those who do not seem to fit into this world are close to finding themselves.“ – Hermann Hesse
- „That which you long for also longs for you.“ – Rumi
- „Only those who go their own way cannot be overtaken by anyone.“ – Marlon Brando
- „I was what you are and you are becoming what I am.“ – On someones tombstone
- „On easy ways you send only the weak.“ – Hermann Hesse
- „Only when one reflects that the means of order of the mind, thinking and language, do not tidy up reality in itself, but are models to explain the world according to one’s own rules of the game, one comes closer to the human being. Who perceives different things, also experiences differently. And who experiences differently, thinks also differently. And whoever thinks differently also uses a different language.“ – Unknown
- „If this is the best of all possible worlds, what do you think the others look like?“ – Voltaire
- „The press may not be successful much of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling it’s readers what to think about.“ – Bernard Cole
- „I will have more damage from anger than from the insult done to me.“ – Seneca
- „History is the lie agreed upon.“ – Voltaire
- „All suffering comes from attachment, all happiness from letting go“ – Tibetan Proverb
- „Jene die aufgeklärter sind als andere, sind doch dazu verurteilt diesem Licht zu folgen, allen Widerständen zum Trotz.“ – Unbekannt
- „The world is so ordered that the pathetic does not triumph in the long run.“ – Ernst Jünger
- „The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.“ – Neil Gaiman
- „I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and impossible. The fact that something seems impossible shouldn’t be a reason to not pursue it. That’s exactly what makes it worth pursuing. Where would the courage and greatness be if success was certain and there was no risk. The only true failure is shrinking away from life’s challenge.“ – Friedrich Nietzsche
- „Politics is not the art of the possible, but the choice between the catastrophic and the unbearable.“ – John Kenneth Galbraith
- „Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.“ – Søren Kierkegaard
- „All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.“ – Albert Camus
- „I know that I know nothing“ – Socrates
- „The sciences do not try to explain anything, in fact, they hardly try to interpret anything. Primarily, they develop models.“ – John von Neumann
- „The worse the economy, the better the economists.“ – Alfred Zauberman
- „All economic changes are inherently determined by mass psychology. As long as we cannot understand the thinking of the masses, … our economic theories will leave much open … It always seemed to me that the periodically recurring stupidity that afflicts humanity is an expression of a deeply ingrained trait in our nature … This force is elusive, … but knowledge of it is essential if one wants to understand the events of the past.“ – Bernard Baruch
- „To free oneself is nothing; to be able to be free is the difficult thing.“ – André Gide
- „I’ll be brief. But not as brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the shortest speech ever. He said, ‚I will be so brief that I’m already finished,‘ and then he sat down.“ – Edward Osborne Wild
- „Life is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel.“ – Horace Walpole
- „It is a natural law that identical causes always produce identical effects.“ – Unknown
- „At the hand that gives out roses, a little fragrance always lingers.“ – Chinese Proverb
- „Anyone who attempts to become an authority in the field of truth fails because of the laughter of the gods.“ – Unknown
- „Even if we do not experience it, in our minds we have seen everything completed.“ – John Knittel
