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Quote by Jean Paul

“No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one”

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Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a prominent German writer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Known for his unique style and profound philosophical insights, his works have had a significant impact on literature. more

“As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite.”

Men Way Lasts Law Water Nature Loses Consciousness Quality Source Return Ocean Infinite Silent Depth Smallest Detached Drop Of Water

Book:The Way of Peace

Source: The Way of Peace

“I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade of the Brain.”

People States America President United Brain United States Activity Program Decades Officials Appropriate United States Of America Ceremony January Public Officials January 1

Author:George H. W. Bush

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Thich Nhat Hanh If you gathered up all the fearful thoughts that exist in the mind of the average person, looked at them objectively, and tried to decide just how much good they provided that person, you would see that not some but all fearful thoughts are useless. They do no good. Zero. They interfere with dreams, hopes, desire and progress.”

“We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.”

Anxiety Adore Invoke Appease

Book:Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

“It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.”

Age Interest Common Youth Vices Old Age

Book:The Comedies of Terence: And the Fables of Phædrus

Source: The Comedies of Terence: And the Fables of Phædrus

“A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.”

Ifs Thinking Men Years Looks Age Young Youth Fit Satisfaction Former Enjoyment Pleasant Infancy Former Life

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.”

Thinking Knows Men Age Young Human Nature Youth Fool Young Man Folly Old Man

Author:George Chapman

“There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.”