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Poem · Philosophical literature

And with the guts of the last priest Let's wring the neck of the last king.

1772

★ 9.6

Philosophical literature

I think, therefore I am.

Discourse on Method · 1637

★ 9.1

Essay · Philosophical literature

I am condemned to be free.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Being and Nothingness · 1943

★ 8.5

An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted.

1878

★ 8.4

Novel · Satire

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Candide · 1759

★ 7.6

Novel · Satire

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Candide · 1759

★ 7.4

Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

1805

★ 7.3

Epigram · Philosophical literature

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Pensees · 1662

★ 7.3

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

1768

★ 7.1

Hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre

1944

★ 7.1

Epigram · Philosophical literature

We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

Pensees · 1662

★ 7.1

Epigram · Philosophical literature

God is, or He is not. But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separates us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?... If you win, you win everything; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.

Pensees · 1662

★ 7.0

Novel · Satire

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

Candide · 1759

★ 7.0

Personal journal

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

1941

★ 7.0

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

Charles de Gaulle

1962

★ 7.0

Epigram · Philosophical literature

What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earth-worn, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.

Pensees · 1670

★ 7.0

See many skies and seas.

Gustave Flaubert

1857

★ 7.0

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

1864

★ 7.0

Novel · Modernist literature

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 7.0

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres

1159

★ 6.9

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