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Philosophical literature6 quotes
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate? — Boethius · 524Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. — William Blake · 1793The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are borne through strife. — Heraclitus · 480 BCIt is not better for men to get everything they want. Disease makes health pleasant and good, as hunger does being full, and weariness rest. — HeraclitusWhen the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil. — Lao Tzu · 400 BCHistory (play)3 quotes
Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud,
And after summer evermore succeeds
Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold;
So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet. — William Shakespeare · 1594There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distill it out. — William Shakespeare · 1599No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. — William Shakespeare · 1597Psychological literature2 quotes
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. — Carl Jung · 1912The pain of grief is just as much a part of life as the joy of love; it is, perhaps, the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment. — Colin Murray Parkes · 1972Religious literature2 quotes
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil. — Lao Tzu · 400 BCShall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? — Job · 500 BCComedy (play)1 quote
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. — William Shakespeare · 1616Drama1 quote
You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to. — Sean · 1997Drama (film)1 quote
You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to. — Sean · 1997Epistolary novel1 quote
Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Feminist literature1 quote
The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. — Virginia Woolf · 1929Psychological drama1 quote
You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to. — Sean · 1997Psychological drama (film)1 quote
You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to. — Sean · 1997