100 phrases to think and daydream

Famous quotes by great people that will make your imagination fly.

Life is not as simple as it may seem at first glance. As much as we are bombarded in modern society with advertising slogans and phrases that appeal to action and with movies in which the good guys are very bad and the bad guys are clearly bad and, in general, we see every day fictional characters that represent stereotypical ways of living life, the truth is that reality, our relationships and even our personalities are full of nuances and give rise to all kinds of phrases to think about..

Everything around us can lead us to reflection, if we pay enough attention to it, and everything can make us wiser. The experiences that can propel us in our personal development are everywhere, we just have to be able to recognize them, to become sensitive to them.

100 phrases to think and forge your own criteria.

Numerous thinkers and intellectuals have reached this conclusion throughout centuries of history, and today they have left us a fantastic legacy in the form of phrases to think. Taking these phrases as a first ingredient to forge one's own criteria about things is a good way to train oneself in the art of reflection.

Of course, the best thing to do is not just to read them and that's it. If they are sentences to think about, it is precisely because they open a window to the world that extends beyond conventions and common sense. and common sense. It is worth spending at least a few seconds of reflection on them.

A space for reflection and critical thinking

So, if you are interested in stopping taking many things for granted and building your own way of understanding reality, starting with these phrases for thinking can be a good start. The phrases are numbered but do not occupy a place in the list according to a particular criterion.

1. The truth may be out there, but the lies are in your head, by Terry Pratchett.

2. Revolutions are the locomotives of history, by Karl Marx.

3. The secret of humor is surprise, by Aristotle.

4. Science is magic that works, by Kurt Vonnegut.

5. To love is to act, by Victor Hugo.

 

6. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself, by Napoleon Bonaparte.

7. There is nothing permanent except change, by Heraclitus.

8. We can't help everybody, but everybody can help somebody, by Ronald Reagan.

9. All our knowledge starts from our experience, by Immanuel Kant.

10. Writing is good, thinking is better, by Herman Hesse.

11. Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable, by Franz Kafka.

12. A wise man never loses anything if he has himself, by Michel de Montaigne.

13. From difficulties miracles are born, by Jean de la Bruyere.

14. In illness, the most important thing is not to lose heart, by Vladimir Lenin.

15. We must distinguish between faith and expectations, by Ivan Illich.

16. The mind is the effect, not the cause, by Daniel Dennett.

17. Morality is the herd instinct of the individual, by Friedrich Nietzsche.

18. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

All oppression creates a state of war, by Simone de Beauvoir.

20. Life is neither good nor evil, but a place for both good and evil, by Marcus Aurelius.

21. Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste, by Charles Bukowski.

22. Freedom is something that dies if you don't use it, by Hunter S. Thompson.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, by Virginia Woolf.

24. Silence is a faithful friend who never betrays, by Confucius.

25. Lack of money is the root of all evil, by Mark Twain.

 

26. Fame is the proper thirst of youth, by Lord Byron.

27. Imagination decides everything, by Blaire Pascal.

28. The more one judges, the less one loves, by Honoré de Balzac.

29. Men have become the tools of their tools, by Henry David Thoreau.

30. It takes a touch of madness to do great things, by Henry Rollins.

31. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction, by Pablo Picasso.

32. Man is an intelligence in the service of his organs, Aldous Huxley.

33. Only the poet can look beyond the details to see the whole picture, by Helen Hayes.

34. Every man mistakes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the world, by Arthur Schopenhauer.

35. Perfect numbers, like perfect men, are very rare, by René Descartes.

36. Character is a set of habits that are maintained for a long time, Plutarch.

Jump, and the net will appear, by John Burroughs.

Don't be afraid of perfection, you will never reach it, by Salvador Dalí.

39. A truth that is spoken with evil intent overcomes all the lies that can be invented, by William Blake.

We live on the verge of the miraculous, by Henry Miller.

41. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress, by Mahatma Gandhi.

42. The art of living well and the art of dying well are one and the same thing, by Epicurus.

43. Children are educated by what adults are, not by what adults say, by Carl Jung.

44. Sometimes, the vices are only virtues carried to excess, by Charles Darwin.

45. It is difficult to free fools from the chains to which they revere, by Voltaire.

 

Everything has its moral, if you know how to find it, by Lewis Carroll.

47. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage, by Seneca.

48. Friendship is one mind in two bodies, by Mencius.

There is no subject so old that nothing new can be said about it, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what is not measurable, by Galileo Galilei.

51. A powerful idea communicates part of its force to the one who questions it, by Marcel Proust.

52. The future belongs to those who prepare for it in the present, by Malcolm X.

53. Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it, by Edmund Burke.

54. For good poets to exist, there must be good audiences, by Walt Whitman.

55. What you are will be revealed in what you do, by Thomas Edison.

56. To know life you must love many things, by Vincent Van Gogh.

57. Adults are obsolete children, by Dr. Seuss.

58. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, by Desmond Tutu.

59. Being funny is nobody's first choice, by Woody Allen.

60. Creativity requires the price of letting go of certainties, by Erich Fromm.

61. A man full of courage is also a man full of faith, by Cicero.

62. Peace if possible, truth at any price, by Martin Luther.

There is no friend so faithful as a book, by Ernest Hemingway.

64. Truth is what works, by William James.

65. Patience is a lesser form of despair, disguised as a virtue, by Ambrose Bierce.

 

66. To mortals life gives us nothing without hard work, by Horace.

67. The only abnormality is the inability to love, by Anaïs Nin.

68. Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge, by Plato.

69. What matters most is the effort, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

70. Thinking is not agreeing or disagreeing, it is voting, by Robert Frost.

71. No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky, by Bob Dylan.

72. There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal, by Calvin Coolidge.

73. The lower you fall, the higher you fly, by Chuck Palahniuk.

74. Curiosity is the wick in the candle of knowledge, by William Arthur Ward.

Nothing has so much force as extreme necessity, by Euripides.

76. People do not mind being bad, but they never want to be ridiculous, by Molière.

77. No one understands either the Pain or the joy of others, by Franz Schubert.

78. Man should strive to think much and know little, by Democritus.

78. Only the educated are free, by Epictetus.

79. The greatest evil is physical pain, by St. Augustine.

80. Hell is others, by Jean-Paul Sartre.

81. We forge the chains that we wear in life, by Charles Dickens.

82. Life is pain, and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic, by Cesare Pavese.

83. All that we see is a dream within a dream, by Edgar Allan Poe.

84. Peace begins with a smile, by Teresa of Calcutta.

85. The best revenge is overwhelming success, by Frank Sinatra.

 

86. Politics is not related to morality, Machiavelli.

87. Nationalism is a way of oppressing others, by Noam Chomsky.

88. No one has justice, only good luck or bad luck, by Orson Welles.

89. There is no sin but stupidity, by Oscar Wilde.

90. It is not living that matters, but living rightly, by Socrates.

91. If you do not act according to what you think, you will end up thinking according to what you act, by Blaire Pascal.

92. Forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness, by Jorge Luis Borges.

93. He who controls the media controls the mind, by Jim Morrison.

94. Pride is the most fatal of counselors, by Ramón María del Valle-Inclán.

95. Cowards die many times before they come to their death; the brave only taste death once, by William Shakespeare.

96. Everything is generated from one's own willpower, by Ray Bradbury.

97. Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward, by Søren Kierkegaard.

98. The less one reads, the more harm is done by what one reads, by Miguel de Unamuno.

99. A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed, by Émile Cioran.

Fiction is about what it means to be human, by David Foster Wallace.

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