W Quotes
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“Whoever thought the future would feel so much like the present?”
“Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.”
“Whoever thought to name a candy bar Butterfinger has either never seen Last Tango In Paris or seen it far too many times.”
“Whoever thought up the phrase ‘Absence makes the heart grow founder’ was an idiot.
Absence makes a bitch go crazy.
-Elli, While Shea is Away”
Source: Taking Shots
“Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.”
“Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.”
“Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.”
Source: Forty Years on Main Street
“Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.”
“Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge, Allah will make easy for him the path to Paradise."
(reported by Ibn Majah and others, fulfilling the conditions of Imam al Bukhari and Imam Muslim)”
“Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house.”
“Whoever tries to create something by force is always exposed to the danger that the goal will break in front of his eyes, through his own behaviours, before he reaches it.”
“Whoever tries to imitate me is lost.”
“Whoever tries to understand the Human Values of Truth, Righteous conduct, Peace, Love and Non-violence properly, who practises these values and propagates them with zeal and sincerity can alone be described as a truly educated person.”
“Whoever truly worships the gods loves their priests.”
“Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers.”
“Whoever turns to God, shall receive mercy.”
“Whoever turns to the Lord, shall walk in the light.”
“Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.”
“Whoever understands shall turn from wickedness.”
“Whoever understands the game of life can no longer fool himself, but if you cannot fool yourself, you can no longer derive any pleasure or enjoyment from life. And so it goes, my work is full of compassion, bitter compassion for all those who fool themselves. But this compassion cannot help but be followed by ferocious derision of a destiny that condemns man to deception. And this succinctly is the reason for the bitterness of my art, and also my life.”
“Whoever understands what is good, reject what is evil.”
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]”
Source: On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.”
Source: The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration
“Whoever uses psychedelics should treat them with greatest respect. When Aldous and I used them, we prepared the ambience and ourselves the day before. The day of the session was kept as a holy day, and there were beautiful fruits and flowers around. The result was, that we had no negative experiences.”
“Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist.
To make living itself an art, that is the goal.”
Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
“Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.”
“Whoever walk with great people will be great.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Whoever walks in the dark has not yet seen dawn of light.”
“Whoever want my spot can play me one-on-one for it.”
“whoever wants Communism without the social revolution and without proletarian dictatorship, whoever rejects the strategy of the Communists, - his sympathy with Communism may be the expression of dissatisfaction with the existing order, but it can be nothing more.”
Source: Dialectical Materialism and Communism
“Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life.”
“Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays
“Whoever wants light, should give light, so he receives his payment.”
“Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.”
Source: Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River
“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel
“Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.”
“Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.”
Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth
“Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.”
“Whoever wants to approach prayer without a guide, and proudly thinks that he can learn from books, and won't go to an elder, is already halfway into delusion. But the Lord helps the humble, and if there is no experienced guide, and he goes to a confessor, whoever he may be, then the Lord will cover him because of his humility.”
“Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.”
“Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.”
“Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.”
“Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.”
“Whoever wants to change the world must know that it is under construction. Therefore, once you start helping with the building, don’t stop. Go down some steps, have patience; My son - I'll go up there to open the door you're waiting for.”
“Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.”
“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.”
“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.”
“Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.”
“Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.”