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Sigmund Freud fotka

“A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Eleanor Roosevelt fotka

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt without an original source in her writings, for example in the introduction to It Seems to Me : Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt (2001) by Leonard C. Schlup and Donald W. Whisenhunt, p. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=UeFWjTMcLZYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false. But archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above.
Disputed

Abraham Lincoln fotka

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
Mnohokrát som padol na kolená, keď som bol hlboko presvedčený, že už nemám kam ísť. Moja vlastná múdrosť a múdrosť všetkých okolo mňa sa mi v ten deň zdala nedostatočná.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Noah Brooks, scribe for the Sacramento Union, writing in the Harper’s Weekly for July 1865, 3 months after Lincoln had died, reported that the Lincoln once said this, at an unspecified date; as reported in "Did Abraham Lincoln Actually Say That Obama Quote?" by James M. Cornelius, The Daily Beast (9 August 2012) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/08/did-abraham-lincoln-actually-say-that-obama-quote.html
Posthumous attributions

Eleanor Roosevelt fotka

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
Bojíme sa starať o druhých kvôli strachu, že sa druhí nestarajú o nás.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Wayne W. Dyer fotka

“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”
Keď súdite druhého, nedefinujete jeho, ale seba.

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
Evelyn Underhill fotka

“If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.”
Keby bol Boh dosť malý na to, aby ho bolo možné pochopiť, nebol by dostatočne veľký na to, aby ho bolo možné uctievať.

Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941) British saint, poet, novelist
James Baldwin fotka

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
Každý, kto niekedy bojoval s chudobou, vie, aké nákladné je byť chudobný.

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

"Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem" in Esquire (July 1960); republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)

Eleanor Roosevelt fotka

“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
Priateľstvo so sebou samým je veľmi dôležité, pretože bez neho sa človek nemôže začať priateliť s nikým iným na svete.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

As quoted in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130

Marilyn Monroe fotka

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
Všetci by sme mali začať žiť skôr, než budeme príliš starí. Strach je hlúpy. A takisto ľútosť.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Walter Lippmann fotka

“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
Tam, kde všetci rozmýšľajú rovnako, nikto veľmi nerozmýšľa.

Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) American journalist

The Stakes of Diplomacy http://books.google.com/books?id=cyFMAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Where+all+think+alike+no+one+thinks+very+much%22&pg=PA51#v=onepage (1915)

Robert A. Heinlein fotka

“Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.)”
Hriech spočíva len v tom, že zbytočne ubližujeme iným ľuďom. Všetky ostatné "hriechy" sú vymyslené nezmysly. Ubližovanie sebe samému nie je hriech - len hlúposť.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Zdroj: Time Enough for Love

Mark Twain fotka

“"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.”
Klasický román? Román, ktorý ľudia chvália, ale nečítajú.

Mark Twain kniha Following the Equator

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XXV
Following the Equator (1897)

Theodore Roosevelt fotka

“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
Jediný človek, ktorý nerobí chyby, je človek, ktorý nikdy nič neurobí.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

As quoted by Jacob A. Riis in Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen (1904), chapter XVI A Young Men's Hero http://www.bartleby.com/206/16.html
1900s

Woody Allen citát: “I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”
Woody Allen fotka

“I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”
Nie som asociál. Len nie som spoločenský.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Bob Dylan fotka

“I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.”
Prijímam chaos, nie som si istý, či on prijíma mňa.

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Charles Bukowski fotka

“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”
Pamätám si, ako som sa raz ráno zobudil a zistil, že všetko je zafarbené farbou zabudnutej lásky.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Zdroj: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

Oscar Wilde fotka

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Amerika je jedinou krajinou, ktorá prešla od barbarstva k dekadencii bez toho, aby medzi tým prebehla civilizácia.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Leonardo Da Vinci fotka

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
Štúdium bez túžby kazí pamäť a neuchováva nič, čo prijalo.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
George Bernard Shaw fotka

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
Život nie je o tom, aby ste našli seba. Život je o tom, aby ste seba vytvorili.

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Varianta: Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

John Lennon fotka

“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”
Neobmedzená nehynúca láska, ktorá žiari okolo mňa ako milión sĺnk, volá ma naprieč celým vesmírom.

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
George Harrison fotka

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there.”
Keď nevieš, kam ideš, privedie ťa tam každá cesta.

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
William Faulkner fotka

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
Nesmieme byť slobodní, pretože požadujeme slobodu, ale preto, že ju praktizujeme.

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Zdroj: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

George Carlin fotka

“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.”
Mám rovnakú autoritu ako pápež, len nemám toľko ľudí, ktorí by tomu verili.

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Books, Brain Droppings (1997)

Oscar Wilde fotka

“Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
Vzdelanie je obdivuhodná vec. Je však dobré si pamätať, že to, čo je dobré vedieť, sa nedá naučiť.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

Anne Bradstreet fotka

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
Keby sme nemali zimu, jar by nebola taká príjemná: keby sme občas neokúsili nepriazeň osudu, prosperita by nebola taká vítaná.

Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) Anglo-American poet

14.
Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
Zdroj: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Galileo Galilei fotka

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
Necítim sa povinný veriť, že ten istý Boh, ktorý nás obdaril zmyslami, rozumom a intelektom, chcel, aby sme sa vzdali ich používania.

Galileo Galilei Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

Varianta: I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Zdroj: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
Kontext: I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
Kontext: I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.<!-- ¶22

Stephen R. Covey fotka

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
Nie som produktom svojich okolností. Som produktom svojich rozhodnutí.

Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
William Shakespeare fotka

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
V Nebi a na Zemi je viac vecí, Horácio, ako o ktorých sa ti sníva v tvojej filozofii.

Zdroj: Hamlet

Swami Vivekananda fotka

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
Sme tým, čím nás urobili naše myšlienky, preto si dávajte pozor na to, čo si myslíte. Slová sú druhoradé. Myšlienky žijú, cestujú ďaleko.

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Michael Ende fotka

“What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.”
Čo som začal, musím dokončiť. Zašiel som príliš ďaleko, aby som sa vrátil späť. Bez ohľadu na to, čo sa môže stať, musím ísť dopredu.

Michael Ende kniha The Neverending Story

Zdroj: The Neverending Story

Friedrich Nietzsche fotka

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
Vo vašom tele je viac múdrosti ako vo vašej najhlbšej filozofii.

Friedrich Nietzsche kniha Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Zdroj: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Kris Kristofferson fotka

“I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.”
Vymenil by som všetky svoje zajtrajšky za jeden jediný včerajšok.

Kris Kristofferson (1936) American country music singer, songwriter, musician, and film actor
John Steinbeck fotka

“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
Čokoľvek, čo stojí len peniaze, je lacné.

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer
Doris Lessing fotka

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
Nech už máte urobiť čokoľvek, urobte to teraz. Podmienky na to sú vždy nesplniteľné.

Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Franz Kafka fotka

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
Mnoho kníh je ako kľúč k neznámym komorám na hrade vlastného ja.

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author
Martin Luther King, Jr. fotka

“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
Na dôstojnosť možno útočiť, vandalizovať ju, kruto sa jej vysmievať, ale nikdy ju nemožno vziať, ak sa jej človek nevzdá.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Oscar Wilde fotka

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
Všetko na svete je o sexe okrem sexu. Sex je o moci.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Simone de Beauvoir fotka

“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
Bola pripravená skôr poprieť existenciu priestoru a času než pripustiť, že láska nemusí byť večná.

Simone de Beauvoir kniha The Mandarins

Zdroj: The Mandarins

T.S. Eliot fotka

“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
Väčšinu zla na tomto svete páchajú ľudia s dobrými úmyslami.

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
George Orwell fotka

“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
Štyri nohy dobré, dve nohy zlé.

George Orwell kniha Animal Farm

Zdroj: Animal Farm

Octavia E. Butler fotka

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
Keď vás dusí hnev, je najlepšie nič nehovoriť.

Octavia E. Butler Fledgling

Zdroj: Fledgling

John Milton fotka

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
Lepší vládnout v pekle než sloužit v nebi.

John Milton kniha Paradise Lost

Varianta: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Zdroj: Paradise Lost

Susan B. Anthony fotka

“No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”
Žiadny muž nie je dosť dobrý na to, aby vládol akejkoľvek žene bez jej súhlasu.

Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American women's rights activist
Jean Paul Sartre fotka

“We are our choices.”
Sme naše voľby.

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, an...
Friedrich Nietzsche fotka

“In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.”
V horách pravdy nikdy neleziete nadarmo: buď dnes vystúpite vyššie, alebo budete skúšať svoje sily, aby ste zajtra mohli vystúpiť ešte vyššie.

Friedrich Nietzsche kniha Human, All Too Human

II.293, maxim 358 http://books.google.kz/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&pg=PA293&dq=%22In+the+mountains+of+truth+you+will+never+climb+in+vain%22&hl=en
Human, All Too Human (1878)

Pablo Picasso fotka

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”
Iní videli, čo sa deje a pýtali sa prečo sa to deje. Ja som videl, čo by mohlo byť a pýtal som sa prečo to nie je.

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

Zdroj: Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

Stephen King fotka

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
Cesta do pekla je dláždená príslovkami.

Stephen King (1947) American author

Zdroj: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

William Shakespeare fotka

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”
Aj keď je to šialenstvo, predsa je v tom metóda.

Zdroj: Hamlet

Bruce Lee fotka

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
Láska je ako priateľstvo, ktoré horí. Spočiatku je iba ako plameň, veľmi pekná, často horúca a divoká, ale stále iba slabá a blikajúca. A ako láska starne a naše srdcia dozrievajú, je ako uhlie, hlboko horiaca a neuhasiteľná.

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
George Orwell fotka

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
Ak chcete zachovať tajomstvo, musíte ho skryť aj pred sebou.

George Orwell kniha 1984

Varianta: For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.
Zdroj: 1984

Pablo Picasso fotka

“It takes a very long time to become young.”
Trvá veľmi dlho, kým sa stanete mladým.

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

On met très longtemps à devenir jeune.
As quoted by Jean Cocteau The Hand of a Stranger (Journal d'un Inconnu). Horizon Press. 1959 [1953]. http://books.google.com/books?id=HxBJAQAAIAAJ
1950s

F. Scott Fitzgerald fotka

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
Vždy, keď dostaneš chuť niekoho kritizovať, spomeň si, že všetci ľudia na tomto svete nemali také výhody ako ty.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925)

Gloria Steinem fotka

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
Bez skokov v predstavivosti a snívaní strácame vzrušenie z možností. Snívanie je napokon istou formou plánovania.

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
George Orwell fotka

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
Bol to jasný chladný aprílový deň a hodiny ukazovali trinásť.

George Orwell kniha 1984

Zdroj: 1984

Erich Maria Remarque fotka

“Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.”
Život je dobrý alebo zlý, ale to si uvedomíte až vtedy, keď musíte riskovať.

Erich Maria Remarque kniha The Black Obelisk

Zdroj: The Black Obelisk

Oscar Wilde fotka

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
Milujem herectvo. Je oveľa skutočnejšie ako život.

Oscar Wilde kniha The Picture of Dorian Gray

Zdroj: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Bob Dylan fotka

“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”
Nikto nie je slobodný, dokonca aj vtáky sú pripútané k nebu.

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Oscar Wilde fotka

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Nechcem byť odkázaný na milosť svojich emócií. Chcem ich využiť, tešiť sa z nich a dominovať im.

Oscar Wilde kniha The Picture of Dorian Gray

Zdroj: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Charles Baudelaire fotka

“Do not look for my heart any more; the beasts have eaten it.”
Už viac nehľadaj moje srdce; zjedli ho beštie.

Charles Baudelaire kniha Les Fleurs du mal

Ne cherchez plus mon cœur; des monstres l’ont mangé.
"Causerie" [Conversation] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal/1857/Causerie
Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)
Zdroj: Les Fleurs du Mal

Virginia Woolf fotka

“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. --Bernard, The Waves”
Niektorí ľudia chodia ku kňazom, iní k poézii, ja k priateľom.

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
William Shakespeare fotka

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
Hviezdy, skryte svoje plamene, nech svetlo nevidí moje čierne a hlboké túžby.

Zdroj: Macbeth

Martin Luther King, Jr. fotka

“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”
Žiadny človek nemá právo kaziť tvoje sny.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Pablo Picasso fotka

“[Speaking of computers] But they are useless. They can only give you answers.”
[Keď už hovoríme o počítačoch] Ale sú zbytočné. Môžu vám dať len odpovede.

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

As discussed in this entry from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/05/computers-useless/#more-2932, the origin seems to be the article "Pablo Picasso: A Composite Interview" by William Fifield which appeared in The Paris Review 32, Summer-Fall 1964, and collected a number of interviews Fifield had done with Picasso.
Common later variant: "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." This variant seems to have arisen in the 1980s, the earliest known appearance in a book is Herman Feshbach, "Reflections on the Microprocessor Revolution: A Physicist's Viewpoint", in Man and Technology (1983), ed. Bruce M. Adkins, where the attribution is described as "rumoured". http://books.google.com/books?id=9EohAQAAIAAJ&q=Picasso
1960s

George Bernard Shaw fotka

“Youth is wasted on the young.”
Mladosť sa premrhá na mladých.

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Hunter S. Thompson fotka

“I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.”
Pijem oveľa menej, ako si väčšina ľudí myslí, a myslím oveľa viac, ako by tomu väčšina ľudí verila.

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Zdroj: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

Luciano De Crescenzo fotka
William Shakespeare fotka

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
Hovoríte nekonečne dlho o ničom.

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Zdroj: The Merchant of Venice

Lorrie Moore fotka

“You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.”
Ste nešťastní, pretože veríte v existenciu niečoho takého, ako je šťastie.

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer
René Descartes fotka

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
Čítať si dobrú knihu je ako rozprávať sa s najlepšími ľuďmi minulých storočí.

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
Gabriel García Márquez fotka

“Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.”
Každý človek je pánom svojej smrti a všetko, čo môžeme urobiť, keď príde jeho čas, je pomôcť mu zomrieť bez strachu z bolesti.

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
John Dewey fotka

“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”
"Ja" nie je niečo hotové, ale niečo, čo sa neustále formuje prostredníctvom voľby konania.

John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
John Lennon fotka

“Love is the flower you've got to let grow.”
Láska je kvet, ktorý musíte nechať rásť.

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Zdroj: Lyrics, Mind Games (1973)
Kontext: We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil.
Doing the mind guerrilla,
Some call it magic — the search for the grail.

Love is the answer and you know that for sure.
Love is a flower, you got to let it — you got to let it grow.

Joan Didion fotka

“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”
Osloboď nás od očakávaní druhých, vráť nám seba samých - v tom spočíva veľká, výnimočná sila sebaúcty.

Joan Didion (1934) American writer
Pablo Picasso fotka

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
Inšpirácia existuje, ale musí vás nájsť pri práci.

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

La inspiración existe, pero tiene que encontrarte trabajando.
Attributed from posthumous publications
Zdroj: Tomás R. Villasante (1994), Las ciudades hablan: identidades y movimientos sociales en seis metrópolis latinoamericanas. p. 264.

Arthur Schopenhauer fotka

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
Človek môže byť sám sebou, iba ak je sám; a ak nemiluje samotu, nebude milovať slobodu; pretože len keď je sám, je skutočne slobodný.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Zdroj: Essays and Aphorisms

George Orwell fotka

“Wherever there is an enforced orthodoxy — or even two orthodoxies, as often happens — good writing stops.”
Kdekoľvek existuje vynútená ortodoxia – alebo dokonca dve ortodoxie, ako sa často stáva – dobré písanie prestane existovať.

George Orwell kniha 1984

"The Prevention of Literature" (1946)
Zdroj: 1984
Kontext: Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable. It can never permit either the truthful recording of facts or the emotional sincerity that literary creation demands. But to be corrupted by totalitarianism one does not have to live in a totalitarian country. The mere prevalence of certain ideas can spread a kind of poison that makes one subject after another impossible for literary purposes. Wherever there is an enforced orthodoxy — or even two orthodoxies, as often happens — good writing stops. This was well illustrated by the Spanish civil war. To many English intellectuals the war was a deeply moving experience, but not an experience about which they could write sincerely. There were only two things that you were allowed to say, and both of them were palpable lies: as a result, the war produced acres of print but almost nothing worth reading.

Oscar Wilde fotka

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
Verejnosť je úžasne tolerantná. Odpúšťa všetko okrem geniality.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Zdroj: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

John Steinbeck fotka

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
Každá vojna je prejavom zlyhania človeka ako mysliaceho živočícha.

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer
Jim Morrison fotka

“Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts”
Medzi najväčšie chyby v mojom živote patrili moje účesy.

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.”
Ak chceme žiť naplno, musíme sa naučiť využívať veci a milovať ľudí, a nie milovať veci a využívať ľudí.

John Powell (1645–1713) American Jesuit priest

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
Nič vám nemôže priniesť pokoj, len vy sami.

Dale Carnegie kniha How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Zdroj: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Charles Baudelaire fotka

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
Vždy buďte básnikom, dokonca aj v próze.

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet
Diana Gabaldon fotka

“All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.”
Všetko, čo chcem, je, aby si ma miloval. Nie preto, čo dokážem, ako vyzerám alebo preto, že ťa milujem - len preto, že som.

Diana Gabaldon kniha A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Zdroj: A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Gerald Durrell fotka

“A house is not a home until it has a dog.”
Dom nie je domovom, kým v ňom nie je pes.

Gerald Durrell (1925–1995) naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter
Anthony Robbins fotka

“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”
Ak chceme efektívne komunikovať, musíme si uvedomiť, že každý z nás vníma svet inak, a toto poznanie musíme použiť ako vodítko pri komunikácii s ostatnými.

Anthony Robbins kniha Unlimited Power

Varianta: To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Zdroj: Unlimited Power (1986), p. 237

Terry Pratchett fotka

“Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.”
Sklo sa niekedy blyští viac ako diamanty, pretože musí viac dokazovať.

Terry Pratchett kniha The Truth

Zdroj: The Truth

Friedrich Nietzsche fotka

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
V nebi nie sú žiadni zaujímaví ľudia.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
John Steinbeck fotka

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
A teraz, keď už nemusíš byť dokonalý, môžeš byť dobrý.

John Steinbeck kniha East of Eden

Zdroj: East of Eden

Maya Angelou fotka

“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”
Medzi pravdou a faktami je veľký rozdiel. Fakty môžu zastierať pravdu.

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Crazy Horse fotka

“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”
Zem, po ktorej ľudia chodia, sa nepredáva.

Crazy Horse (1840–1877) Oglala Sioux chief

As quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) by Dee Brown, Ch. 12

Albert Camus fotka

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.”
Viete, čo je to šarm: spôsob, ako získať odpoveď "áno" bez toho, aby ste položili jasnú otázku.

Albert Camus kniha The Fall

The Fall (1956)

Ludwig von Mises fotka

“The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.”
Kritériom pravdy je, že funguje, aj keď ju nikto nie je ochotný uznať.

Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) austrian economist

Zdroj: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science (1962), Chapter 5: On Some Popular Errors Concerning the Scope and Method of Economics, § 9 : The Belief in the Omnipotence of Thought

Léon Bloy fotka

“There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.”
Koniec koncov, existuje len jedna tragédia, a to nebyť svätým.

Léon Bloy (1846–1917) French writer, poet and essayist

In Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Peter Kreeft

Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Ignatius Press, 2001 https://books.google.com/books?id=VZ-xgfJkNNgC&pg=PA89&dq=%22There+is+only+one+tragedy+in+the+end,+not+to+have+been+a+saint%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIrLb4nOL6yAIVhjk-Ch1XSQVB#v=onepage&q=%22There%20is%20only%20one%20tragedy%20in%20the%20end%2C%20not%20to%20have%20been%20a%20saint%22&f=false

Dante Alighieri fotka

“As the thing more perfect is,
The more it feels of pleasure and of pain.”

Čím dokonalejšia vec je, tým viac spôsobí rozkoš ale i bolesť.

Dante Alighieri kniha Inferno

Canto VI, lines 107–108 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

Elfriede Jelinek fotka

“Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.”
Niekedy, samozrejme, najprv je to umenie, ktoré spôsobuje utrpenie.

Elfriede Jelinek kniha The Piano Teacher

P 23
The Piano Teacher (1988)

Seneca the Younger fotka

“No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled.”
Nikto nemôže vládnuť, pokiaľ nie je schopný vydržať byť ovládaný.

Seneca the Younger Moral Essays

De Ira (On Anger): Book 2, cap. 15, line 4
Compare with the following : No man ruleth safely but that he is willingly ruled.
From The Imitation of Christ, Liber I, cap. 20 (Of the Love of Solitude and Silence), line 2 : by Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471).
Moral Essays

Joanne K. Rowling fotka

“The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.”
Svet je plný úžasných vecí, ktoré ste ešte nevideli. Nikdy sa nevzdávajte šance vidieť ich.

Joanne K. Rowling (1965) British novelist, author of the Harry Potter series

Online tweet, in response to an extremely depressed person contemplating https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/595148783056527360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.etonline.com%2Fnews%2F163965_jk_rowling_sends_beautiful_message_to_fan_who_wants_to_finally_give_up%2F suicide, as quoted in "J.K. Rowling Sends Beautiful Message to Fan Who Wants to 'Finally Give Up'" by Alex Ungerman ET Online (5 May 2015) http://www.etonline.com/news/163965_jk_rowling_sends_beautiful_message_to_fan_who_wants_to_finally_give_up/
2010s

Rumi fotka

“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
Každý človek bol stvorený pre nejakú konkrétnu prácu a túžba po tejto práci bola vložená do srdca každého.

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

As quoted in Marry Your Muse : Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity (1997) by Jan Phillips, p. 75

T. B. Joshua fotka

“People will challenge you, question you, try to get you off track. Don't listen to the temptation to act out of character.”
Ľudia vás budú spochybňovať, pýtať sa vás, snažiť sa vás vyviesť z miery. Nepodľahnite pokušeniu správať sa neštandardne.

T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader

On temptation - "'ATTRIBUTING THE SATELLITES SUCCESS TO ME IS BLASPHEMY' – T.B. JOSHUA" http://www.modernghana.com/print/247180/1/attributing-the-satellites-success-to-me-is-blasph.html Modern Ghana (November 4 2009)

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