Quotes from the pages

The child is the father of man

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is imperative that humanity form a new way of thinking to survive and reach a higher plane.

Albert Einstein

West Kennet Long Barrow distills a powerful palpable charm. Every time I come to Avebury, I never fail to go there.

Stef Kervor

C’eravamo tanto amati. We loved each other so much.

Ettore Scola

There are two histories: the official history, lying ; then the secret history, where are the true causes of events.

Honoré de Balzac

The spiritual life is the awakening of our essential nature. It gives us the qualities of being so badly needed by modern man: silence, simplicity, serenity, confidence.

Karlfield graf Durkheim

If you let someone control your destiny, this is the end. The end.

Jean-Louis Aubert

“Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.”

Baba Ram Dass

The best way to find no proof is not looking for.

Pierre Guerin

Men are a thousand times more bitter to acquire wealth than culture, although it is perfectly certain that an individual’s happiness depends much more on what he is than on what he has.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If you let someone control your destiny, this is the end.

Jean-Louis Aubert

Don’t try to become a successful man. Try to become a valuable man.

Albert Einstein

It happened one fine night the universe foundered on reefs where wreckers lit a flames and high above the sea I saw them gleam your eyes Elsa your eyes Elsa your eyes.

Louis Aragon

The memory of the external facts of my life has largely faded in my mind or disappeared. But the encounters with the other reality, the collision with the unconscious, have indelibly permeated my memory. There was always plenty and wealth there. Everything else goes into the background.

Carl Gustav Jung

The human condition is like that of flocks trotting in the dust, driven to the abattoir at the sound of the flute, by interchangeable shepherds.

Henri de Monfreid

Men are children. Don’t lock them up if you want to keep them.

Jean-Louis Milesi

Regret is always an illusion.

Claude Sautet

Don’t be afraid of the world, my friend. The world should be afraid of you.

Lao Surlam

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.

William Shakespeare

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Helen Keller

The Druids were the most learned men of the world.

Pythagoras

Those who know do not speak and those who speak do not know. The wise teaches by his actions and not by his words.

Lao Tzu

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Coco Chanel

When the wisdom of the old is forgotten, one can always count on the stupidity of the new.

Lao Surlam

Abroad, the French don’t like what is not French. And at home, they don’t like what is French.

Claude Lelouch

Religion condemns religion. It is not school that is without God, it is the Church that is without God.

Alain

Free will comes from ignorance of the real causes that make us act.

Democritus

A flower does not think of competing to the next flower. It just blooms.

Ogui Senseï

He who conquers himself is the most valiant of warriors.

Boudica

Do not search what the world needs. Find out what makes you feel alive, and do it. Because what the world needs, it is people who feel alive.

Howard Thurman

But as for you, initiated into the sacred mysteries, take confidence because divine is of origin the race of the mortals and with those who know how to awaken in their soul the divine which slumbers there, nature reveals all things.

Pythagoras

I can’t get no satisfaction. But I tried. I tried.

The Rolling Stones

History doesn’t repeat itself, it stutters.

Karl Marx

Know that in a duel no holds are barred.

Karine Silla

Homo hominis lupus / The man is a wolf for the man

Plautus

Patience and length of time are more than strength or rage.

La Fontaine

Admit that human life be ruled by reason, is to destroy all possibility of life.

Sean Penn

Do not believe anything, and certainly not what I just told you.

Buddha

Watch the evening as if day should die in it and the morning as if everything was born in it. Wise is the one who marvels.

André Gide

We deserve all of our meetings. They are tuned to our destiny and have a meaning that is up to everyone to discover.

François Mauriac

And if God really existed – as said Bakhounine, this vitamin comrade – we should get rid of him.

Léo Ferré

The great joy to be, to want, and to fear nothing.

Jack Kerouac

Amnesia is a disease whose name I forget.

Maurice Tillieux

The existence shatters all systems.

Soeren Kierkegaard

Two men looked through the bars of their prison. One saw mud, the other saw stars.

Idries Shah

Do not listen to anyone’s advice, except that of the passing wind telling you the history of the world.

Claude Debussy

A life lived in fear is a life half lived

Baz Luhrmann

Eve or Eva says EUA in Maya which means isolate, separate.

Humbatz Men

The past time is gone and the future is not / And the present languishes between life and death / In short, death and life are at all times similar.

Jean-Baptiste Chassignet

If Christianity had been stopped in its growth by some deadly disease, the world would be mithrasic.

Ernest Renan

We are all looking for something. And madness is the quickest way to get it.

Torcuato Luca de Tena

“Non tutti i Corsi sono ladri, ma buona parte / Not all the Corsicans are thieves, but most of them

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It is wrong to say that money has no smell. It always smells like shit.

Lao Surlam

Who is free? The being or its clothing ?

Lao Surlam

I teach you the Superhuman. Man exists only to be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion and humour are incompatible.

Milan Kundera

I know I am right and everyone else is wrong.

Bernard Werber

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To understand where you come from is to know who you are to guess where you are going.

Lao Surlam

As soon as you stop learning, you start dying.

Albert Einstein

The friends of truth are those who seek and not those who boast of having found.

Nicolas de Condorcet

“I don’t want ever to be a man,” Peter said with passion. “I want always to be a little boy and to have fun. So I ran away to Kensington Gardens and lived a long long time with the fairies.”

James Barrie

Man, if you project Your mind beyond places and time You can live every moment in the eternal.

Angelus Silesius

The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of a spectator and calls it self-confidence. The warrior seeks to be impeccable in his own eyes and calls it humility.

Carlos Castaneda

“Every day is an opportunity to give birth to yourself in pain… or in sweetness.”

Lisa Azuelos

Oh my star, you my faithful one, when will you finally give me a less ephemeral appointment, far from everything, in your domain of eternal certainties?

Luchino Visconti

Symbolism? The wisdom of morons. What remains when everything is forgotten.

Lao Surlam

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Rumi

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw

Time is an obstinately persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

Reason is intelligence with an office; imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Victor Hugo

Please, don’t be long / Please don’t belong

Lennon / Mc Cartney

Nowhere I am something that belongs to someone, and nowhere there is something that belongs to me.

Buddha

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Albert Einstein

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Al Einstein

Become antifragile or die

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A working-class hero is something to be. If you want to be a hero you can just follow me. 

John Lennon

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Helen Keller

Humans are three kinds : the living, the dead, and those who sail on sea.

Aristoteles

When emptiness reaches the inside of the skull, that is the beginning of wisdom

Lao Surlam

A pressure cooker, if there is not a valve that lets out the steam, it explodes.

Guy Savoy

We are all visitors of this time, of this place. We are only crossing them. Our goal here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love … After which we go home.

Aboriginal wisdom

The mind that does not read, lose weight. Like a body that does not eat.

Victor Hugo

To doubt everything or to believe all, are two equally convenient solutions, that both prevent from thinking.

Henri Poincaré

The sages of antiquity knew very few, we know even less.

Lao Surlam

The warm and lively beauty of touch is much deeper than the beauty of wisdom.

Charles Dickens

One must have to act and not act to have.

Jean-Claude Flornoy

If we can say about a thing “This is new” that thing already existed in the former centuries. 

King Solomon

There is only one thing bad in you: you think you have eternity before you.

Carlos Castaneda

All the gods came from Hyperborea.

Plato

If money doesn’t make happiness, give it back.

Jules Renard

The war against drugs can not be won because it is a war against human nature.

Keith Morris

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.

Leviticus, 17, 11

Anything that doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are only two ways to live your life: acting as if nothing was a miracle, or doing as if everything was.

Albert Einstein

Never do anything against your conscience, even if the state asks you to.

Albert Einstein

Forgiveness frees the soul, it takes the fear away. That is why forgiveness is such a powerful weapon.

Nelson Mandela

The birds have their nest, the wolves have their lodging, but the son of Man has not even a stone to lay his head.

Jesus Christ

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the Doors of Perception.

Aldous Huxley

We deserve all our meetings. They are attuned to our destiny and have a meaning that it is up to everyone to discover.

François Mauriac

We approach the truth only to the extent that we move away from life.

Socrates

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”

John Lennon

A woman is an accomplished man.

Claude Lelouch

O Holy Spirit, give us your light, give us your light to enlighten us all.

Catholic Canticle

The East is the spiritual world where rises the pure intelligible sun, and Orientals are those whose inner residence receives light of this eternal dawn.

Henri Corbin

I write for twenty centuries from now. And I am setting a date.

Léo Ferré

 In the Middle Ages, the human race has created and thaught nothing important but written in stone.

Victor Hugo

“Seeing” is a particular way of feeling like you know something beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Carlos Castaneda

The tragedy of Africa is that the African people have not sufficiently entered into history.

Nicolas Sarkozy

We stink of the head.

Lao Surlam

Beware of everything, the matrix is everywhere, but not the Resistance.

Lao Surlam

You’re stupid and you’re suspicious. ‘Cause you don’t believe me when I tell you that you’re stupid.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Jesus said, I am not your master because you have drunk. You have drunk at the bubbling spring where I have drunk with moderation.

Gospel of Thomas

Homer deserved to be driven from the contests with a stick, and similarly Archilochus.

Heraclitus

Oh Lord have mercy! Free us from all of the religions!

Guy Bedos

The future of man is woman. She is the colour of his soul. She is his rumour and his noise. And without her, he is but a blasphemy.

Louis Aragon

Religion is for those who are afraid of going to hell, spirituality is for those who have already been there.

Lee Stringer

There’s another world inside of this one, the borderline is inner and time stops here.

Stef Kervor

At your age, you could be your father.

Claude Lelouch

I live in the house of possible. It has more doors and windows than the house of reason.

Emily Dickinson

No one is more enslaved than the one who falsely thinks he is free.

Goethe

In nature’s infinite book of secrecy, a little I can read.

William Shakespeare

I don’t want to believe, I want to know.

Carl Sagan

“Those who speak do not know, those who know do not speak”

traditional wisdom

All the countries that no longer have a legend will be condemned to die of cold.

Patrice de la Tour du Pin

Nice sky, true sky, look at me changing

Paul Valéry

When historians change their glasses, their myopia will become tolerable.

Lao Surlam

Sorcerers can never build a bridge to reach the people of this world. However, if people wish to do so, they must build a bridge to join the sorcerers.

Carlos Castaneda

Nothing is hidden except to be revealed. Nothing is hidden except to be revealed.

Manu Larcenet

When God wants to punish us, he answers our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

I live in the house of the possible. It has more doors and windows than the house of reason.

Emily Dickinson

I am a man, and nothing that is human is foreign to me.

Terence

Sometimes you don’t make the proper analysis of an event for you get stuck to the only point of view that seems evident.

Bernard Werber

Do not fast, you will hurt your body. Do not do charity, you will hurt your soul.

Jesus, Gospel of Thomas

I don’t know what weapons will be used in the third world war, if any. But the fourth will be settled with clubs.

Albert Einstein

The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape. A system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, slaves would love their servitude. 

Aldous Huxley

From the man to the true man, the way passes by the crazy man. Psychology will never be able to tell the truth about madness, since it is madness that holds the truth of psychology.

Michel Foucault

If education is expensive, try ignorance.

tag on a cabin in Kenya

The world is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

William Butler Yeats

The warrior acts. Always. But he never expects results from his action.

Carlos Castaneda

The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

There si only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Aldous Huxley

I am the Voice that cries in the desert: “Ice cream! Cold drink!”

Lao Surlam

The memory of the external events of my life has mostly faded in my mind or disappeared. But the encounters with the other reality, the collision with the unconscious, impregnated indelibly in my memory. There was always abundance and wealth. Everything else goes into the background.

Carl Gustav Jung

A good deed will only be counted if it remains discreet.

Arabic proverb

Why taking life seriously, since in any case, we never get out alive?

Alphonse Allais

Without the freedom to blame, there is no flattering praise.

Beaumarchais

First God made heaven and earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep ; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light ; and there was light.

The Bible

 History teaches historians how to falsify it.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

There are two histories: the official history, lying; then the secret history, where are the real causes of events.

Honoré de Balzac

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

Eternity is a long time. Especially towards the end.

Woody Allen

The point is not to believe or not believe. What matters is to ask many questions as possible.

Bernard Werber

It’s time to gloat.

Hubert Reeves

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The great are kept secret by public incredulity.

Marshall McLuhan

The madness is to make the same mistakes and expect a different result.

Albert Einstein

Learning does not teach intelligence. Otherwise, it would have instructed Hesiod and Pythagoras.

Heraclitus

In this world of lies, only my sincerity is true.

B. Glyer

“I am the voice that cries in the desert”

St John the Baptist

 The old world is dying, the new one is slow to appear, and in this chiaroscuro monsters appear.

Antonio Gramsci

Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Paul Simon et Art Garfunkel

Kindness to ourselves helps us be kind to others.

Brene Brown

My father was like God: busy elsewhere.

Winston Churchill

Doubt is unpleasant condition, but certainty is ridiculous.

Voltaire

A little impatience ruins a big project

Confucius

We spend the first half of our life forging a strong ego, and the second half to get rid of it.

Carl Gustav Jung

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; One of these diseases is called human.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Of all those who have nothing to say, the nicest are those who keep silent.

Michel Colucci aka Coluche

History is an agreed fable.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Crystal your intimate structure organizes the light. Crystal clavicle you open the memory of the world. Crystal clairvoyant you are worth a thousand times gold.

Lao Surlam

We owe respect to the living. We owe the dead only the truth.

Voltaire

Let’s say the truth ever since the Lie is constantly widespread and by many: in the press and books, school and university, and everywhere it exerts its influence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The ego is the only part of human being which will not know awakening

Lamaist proverb

You can not create a new future if you cling to the past.

Karen Downing

The man who can make the difference between soul and spirit reaches supremacy over all conditions and becomes omniscient.

Yoga Sutra Patanjali

Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call, don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block up the hall.

Bob Dylan

When the day falls, there is no wind, there is only power.

Carlos Castaneda

Listen to your body. What you don’t know, your body knows.

Jean-Claude Flornoy

What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.

Albert Einstein

If reality interested people, they would turn off the TV to look out the window.

Jean Yanne

“I have come not to bring peace but to bring war. I have set fire to the world, and I will stir it to flames”

Jesus

Blessed are the forgetful, for they will also overcome their stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One hundred times on the loom, hand over your work.

Boileau

Maybe my heart is opening, baby groove.

Michel Jonasz

Never forget that everything is ephemeral, so you will never be too happy in happiness, nor too sad in sorrow.

Socrates

I would never want to be part of a club that would accept me as a member

Groucho Marx

What’s important is not to believe it or not but to ask a maximum of questions.

Bernard Werber

Today we talk too much about human rights instead of recalling human duties.

Alain Daniélou

Ignorance is not the lack of knowledge, but the lack of self knowledge ; without self knowledge there is no intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Nikola Tesla

Isn’it a disgrace To see the human race In such a rat race?

Bob Marley

I wish the earth stops to go down.

Serge Gainsbourg

Life is random opposed to destinies.

Serge Gainsbourg

He who is aware of his strength and who keeps the woman’s sweetness has the Tao in his hands.

Lao-Tseu

It’s not what you know that’s the problem. It’s what you know for sure that’s not true.

Mark Twain

I’ve never done one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.

Albert Einstein

Gift does not dispense with effort, talent does not dispense with work, genius does not dispense with humility.

Lao Surlam

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is right, ever.

Rainer Maria Rilke

“Do not listen to anyone’s advice, except to the wind that passes and tells you the story of the world”

Claude Debussy

Big things require you to keep quiet or talk about it with greatness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

People do not learn much from the lessons of history, this is the most important lesson in history.

Aldous Huxley

Better read it twice. Three is free. The fourth is Force.

Lao Surlam

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Aldous Huxley

You have no enemies other than those you have put yourself in your path.

Lao Surlam

You must not loose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean. If a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean doesn’t become dirty.

Mohandas Gandhi

The fool thinks himself wise, the wise man knows himself fool.

William Shakespeare

The world is a potential Eden, we must ensure it bears fruit.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

It is given to all humans to know themselves and control themselves.

Heraclitus

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

Of the one who conquered a thousand thousand men in battle and of the one who conquered himself, it is the latter who is the greatest winner.

Buddha

“For we do not have to fight against the blood and the flesh, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the Lords of the world, governors of the darkness of this century, against the spiritual mischiefs that are in the heavenly places.”

Ephesians 6: 12

The real mystery of religion: there are people to practice it.

José Artur

Before the stars shine in the sky, Tiwanaku existed.

proverbe Aymara

Blessed are the feasts because they let light.

Michel Audiard

Two men looked by the bars of their prison. One saw mud, the other saw stars. 

Idries Shah

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

Nikola Tesla

Utopia is simply what has not yet been tried.

Théodore Monod

For something to be worth saying, it has to be good, useful and true. All three, and in that order.

Marie Bénazet

You cannot learn and progress without your contradictions.

Diwan Shams Tabrîzî

It is time to establish the religion of love.

Louis Aragon

“The world will experience peace the day the power of love is stronger than the love of power.”

Jimi Hendrix

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Frank Herbert

Without the Source, there would be nothing. But without anything, the Source remains.

Lao Surlam

When it comes to money, everyone is of the same religion.

Voltaire

The devil’s most beautiful trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist!

Charles Baudelaire

Three ideals have illuminated my path and often given me the courage to face life with optimism: goodness, beauty and truth.

Albert Einstein

Whoever wants to move the world first has to move himself.

Socrates

‘You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.’

Friedrich Nietzsche

What male gaiety, so sad and so deep / That, when we have just laughed, we should cry about it!

Alfred de Musset

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. I just believe in me – Yoko and me – and that’s reality.

John Lennon

If the light sees a hundred thousand persons, it descends only on the one whose essence is light.

Rumi

Happy as a cracked guy who let the light shine through

Michel Audiard

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda

Should we cry? Laugh should we ? / Do they make envy or pity? / I do not have the heart to say. / We don’t see time passing away.

Jean Ferrat

The first knowledge is the knowledge of my ignorance: it is the beginning of intelligence.

Socrates

The way is not important. The point is to get to the center of yourself.

Albert Camus

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddhu Krishnamurti

What risk for the warrior except his life or death ?

Carlos Castaneda

You will not be so easily able to stop. I know you’re stubborn, but it does not matter. The more you’re stubborn, the better you become when you’ll finally manage to change. 

Carlos Castaneda

We are all unique, but a majority is quite numerous anyway.

Stef Kervor

For me, there are only good omens, because whatever happens it’s up to me to take advantage.

Epictetus

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Carl Sagan

The higher you’ve climbed, the deeper you’ve descended into yourself

Roland Topor

I condemn the ignorance that prevails at the moment, so strong that it looks desired by the system.

Marguerite Yourcenar

The petty bourgeois drowns in the icy waters of selfish calculation

Karl Marx – Friedrich Engel

The humanism of the 18th century defined human being far too narrowly: it defined him as being thinking instead of being alive.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Actually we know nothing for the truth is deep in the abyss.

Democritus

Rome is no more in Rome, it is all where I am.

Pierre Corneille

Someone who has never made a mistake has never tried to innovate.

Albert Einstein

I don’t think, I’m too intelligent for that.

Albert Camus

It takes chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Believing the official history is believing criminals on parole.

Simone Weil

As soon as the individual feels, the community is on a slippery floor.

Aldous Huxley

Everybody knew it was impossible, until some fool who didn’t know came along and did it.

Albert Einstein

Beware of all, since the matrix is everywhere, but the Resistance is not.

Muse

There is no difference in kind between the human and the divine. Just a difference of degree.

Lao Surlam

You use the same words than we use, but with you all is magnificent.

A reader

Hoarding? Terrorizing! Who accumulates makes me shit. His excess deprive the mass.

Lao Surlam

Where do I come from? Where do I go? I can tell you. I come from home and I’m going back.

Pierre Dac

If the vote had been of any use, it would have been prohibited a long time ago.

Coluche

You have to go out and live this fucking sick life. And then you can write about it.

Iggy Pop

A man does what he must in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures and that is the basis of all human morality.

Winston Churchill

Existence blows up every system.

Soeren Kierkegaard

The devil’s most beautiful trick is to persuade you that he does not exist!

Charles Beaudelaire

The golden age is like happiness: it is recognized only when it is past.

Lao Surlam

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

Nikola Tesla

Things take only the importance we give them, and people only take that they rob us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

 They have eyes, let them look! They have ears, let them listen! They have a spirit, let them use it! They have a mouth, let them shut up!

Lao Surlam

Do not look for followers. You will have only zeros.

Friedrich Nietzsche

… For life is a lost good when one has not lived as one would have liked.

Mihai Eminescu

He slowly dies who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not know how to laugh at himself.

Pablo Neruda

A man does his duty – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

Winston Churchill

“If you don’t die while you are alive, you will die while dying”

Motto of the Teutonic Knights

You will only see clearly when you look inside. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Gustav Jung

It’s easier to blow up an atom than a prejudice.

Albert Einstein

This is truth that sets free, not the efforts made to be free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Every man carries within him, unconsciously, the memory of ancient civilizations. Similarly, the rock is a fragment of the memory of the world. 

Carl Jung

Today they call them angels and demons, tomorrow they will call them something else.

Aleister Crowley

The man of the future will have the longest memory

Friedrich Nietzsche

It a beautiful harmony when doing and saying fit together.

Voltaire

The verb to love is difficult to conjugate: its past is not simple, its present is only indicative, and its future is always conditional. 

Jean Cocteau

Why do you come so late when it’s already dark?

Aimé Duval

Le Soleil a rendez-vous avec la lune Mais la Lune ne vient pas et le Soleil l’attend. —— The Sun has a rendezvous with the moon But the moon does not come and the Sun awaits.

Charles Trenet

You can ward off the evil that comes from others. You cannot escape the evil that comes from you.

Sheikh Abdullah Ansari

Hurry up, picnic on the grass, as one day the grass will picnic on you.

Jacques Prévert

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Victor Hugo

For nothing that was hidden will remain hidden longer. The time is coming when all will be revealed.

The Bible

Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone! All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.

Pink Floyd

When a woman takes the first step, she wants to have the last word.

Claude Lelouch

A warrior treats the world as an infinite mystery,and what people do as an unlimited folly.

Carlos Castaneda

There’s nobody up there, pulling the strings of the puppet you are.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You will see me one fine morning exhausted I will go and sit on the next sidewalk. You will see that I will not be the one Sitting down on the ground.

Alain Souchon

Don’t believe anything, and certainly not what I just said.

Bouddha

We are so used to hiding from the eyes of others that in the end we hide from our own eyes.

Lao Surlam

I will beg my life on earth and on the waves, from the old to the new world, and I will tell people Enjoy life, take away misery, humans are all brothers, people of all countries.

Boris Vian

I’m going through a severe depression, to treat me I cultivate hatred of the other. Who am I? France.

Fred Testot and Omar Sy

Don’t make any disciple, you would only get zeros.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The man of the future is the one who will have the longest memory.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Don’t ever let yourself pervade by any psychical entity, ghost, spirit, wandering soul, ectoplasm, ally or else: he could never give you back your body’s control.

Carlos Castaneda

If a finger points at the moon, look at the moon, not at the finger.

Sufi Proverb

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind. The answer is blowing in the wind. 

Bob Dylan

He who has known the world has found a corpse. And he who has found a corpse, the world is not worthy of him.

Jesus, Gospel of Thomas

Innumerable are our ways and our homes are uncertain.

Saint-John Perse

I know I am right. And all others are wrong. 

Bernard Werber

When someone is dreaming alone, it is only dreaming. When many people are dreaming together, it is the beginning of a new reality.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

“Jesus said, be passers-by.”

Gospel of Thomas

Very soon I realized that what we were taught in textbooks had a provincial side – unimaginative, lacking air.

Hubert Reeves

The space is infinite where you fell asleep, but the space in your body is much larger still.

Lao Surlam

Like a blazing comet, I’ve traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.

Antonio Tabucchi

The fear of dying makes us live when the fear of living kills us.

Lao Surlam

Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free.

Rumi

There is only one Way and a thousand paths can lead to it.

Lao Surlam

It is a force called weakness by the strong ones who have not, it’s a wisdom called madness by the sages who have not, it’s a light called darkness by the blind ones who have not.

Lanza del Vasto

“The Black ignores that his ancestors, who adapted to the material conditions of the Nile Valley, are the oldest guides of humanity on the path of civilization”

Cheikh Anta Diop

Between your legs I see the light.

Stef Kervor

When you’ll give up hope, I’ll teach you will.

Seneca

Every innocent joy is a remnant of Eden.

Marguerite Yourcenar

You don’t always get what you want But you get what you need.

Mick Jagger

A little impatience ruins a great project.

Confucius

For nothing is hidden that will not become evident, nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light.

Bible

The gods are always hungry, never get enough / And this is death and death ever renewed.

Georges Brassens

“One must know how to attach a price to the useless, one must want to dream.The man alone is perhaps capable of an effort of this kind.”

Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory

I look at this anthill and wonder if men are still capable of love.

Frances Farmer

Either appear as you are, or be as you appear.

Rumi

Free your mind and your ass will follow.

Bill Clinton

May the prodigious spectacle continue and may you bring your rhyme to it.

Walt Witman

When emptiness reaches the inside of the skull, it is the beginning of wisdom.

Lao Surlam

A life without examination is not worth living.

Socrates

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Rene Descartes

Few people like to investigate and seek knowledge. It is easier to believe.

Humbatz Men

And the world will be as one.

John Lennon

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

G. K. Chesterton

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle ; or you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

Utopy is just what have not been tried yet.

Theodore Monod

All that is pure is undrinkable.

Paul Claudel

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

Albert Einstein

The devil’s most beautiful trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist!

Charles Baudelaire

They didn’t know it was impossible, so they did it.

Marcel Pagnol — wrongly attributed to Mark Twain, JF Kennedy, Churchill …

Courage consists in doing what is right. 

Confucius

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with events that it cannot understand.

Karl Marx

We will live, Uncle Vania. And in our old age, we will work for others. And when our time comes, we will die submissive.

Anton Chekhov

No one can teach you anything other than what lies half-asleep in the dawn of your knowledge.

Khalil Gibran

If God exists, atheism must be less insulting for him than religion.

The Goncourt brothers

Choose your words well, for they are the ones who create the world around you.

Navajo saying

Rastaman vibration yeah positive !

Bob Marley

For those who follow, go ahead. It is your turn.

Lao Surlam

Two men watch through the bars of their prison. One sees the mud, the other sees the stars.

Idries Shah

We believe we lead destiny, but it is always destiny who leads us.

Denis Diderot

Man is neither angel nor beast, and misfortune dictates that whoever wants to make the angel is the beast.

Blaise Pascal

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

The true wisdom of life is to see the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Pearl Buck

All reality exists in the mind. The outer phenomenon, that which appears, is only its outer expression. The visible universe is the reflection of the invisible,

Plato

Doubt is an unpleasant mental state, but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire

It is mythology that will survive to science ifever science disappears.

Roland Lehoucq

When you think you get all the answers, the universe comes and changes all the questions.

Jorge F. Pinto

The universe is full of magic and waits patiently that our intelligence is refined.

Eden Phillpotts

If you put your lie first and repeat it often enough, it will become the truth.

William Shakespeare

All religions are right in what they say, and wrong in what they deny.

Lao Surlam

Non nobis, domine, non nobis sed nomini tuo da gloriam ——– Not for us, Lord, not for us but for the glory of your name.

Templars’ Motto

When you’ll forget how to hope, I’ll teach you will.

Seneca

Two men looked through the bars of their prison. One saw mud, the other stars.

Idries Shah

No one can serve two masters. Either he serves God or he serves money.

Jesus

Each life is a fairy tale written by the hand of God.

Hans Christian Andersen

The need raises new organs of perception. Man, increase your need to increase your perception.

Rumi

Only the fireborn understand blue

Carl Sandburg

If music be the food of love, play on. 

Will Shakespeare

I woke up and I saw that everyone was still asleep. So I went back to sleep.

Leonardo Da Vinci

You should always be drunk.  So as not to feel Time’s horrible burden which breaks your shoulders and bows you down, you must get drunk without cease. With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

Charles Baudelaire

Pass for an idiot in the eyes of a fool is a gourmet delight.

Georges Courteline

The only difference between a madman and me is that the madman does not know he is mad.

Lao Surlam

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Alice Walker

Take a hundred men, you will find a man of faith. Take one hundred men of faith, you will find a man of knowledge.

Rumi

Humor helps us survive and stay sane.

Charlie Chaplin

Every man is alone and no one cares about anyone else. Our pains are a desert island.

Albert Cohen

The bird of freedom flies in a straight line and never stops.

Carlos Castaneda

One drug only cures part of the disease. The rest happens in the patient’s head. That is the part I cure.

Claude Lelouch

There will ever be more truth in the universe that in all the books of men.

William Shakespeare

The falsification of history has done more to mislead humans than any other thing of humankind.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You may think I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one Perhaps some day you will join us And the world will be as one.

John Lennon

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

Science without conscience is a soul’s decay.

François Rabelais

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

Friendrich Nietzsche

Where there is a will, there is a path.

Lao-Tzu

When the wisdom of the old is forgotten, one can always count on the stupidity of the new.

Lao Surlam

There is more truth in the universe than in all the books of men.

Willy Shakespeare

Si non e vero e bene trovate / If it is not true it is well found.

My Mother

Anything we don’t understand, we better get rid of.

The Smithsonian Institution

And there we saw the giants, children of Anak, of the race of Sumer giants; and we were in our eyes as grasshoppers, and we also were in their eyes.

The Bible

The only hope for humankind is in the transformation of the individual.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To reach the truth, we must get rid of all the received opinions and rebuild the whole system of our knowledge.

René Descartes

For the mother and child reunion is only a moment away.

Simon and Garfunkel

It is easier to blew an atom than a prejudice.

Albert Einstein

The vibrations of mental forces are the more sophisticated and therefore the more powerful existing.

Charles Haanel

Life is a random opposed to destiny.

Serge Gainsbourg

In life there is no solution, there are running forces. Let us create these forces and solutions will follow.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Uniting our inner divinity is the ultimate purpose of human existence.

Aldous Huxley

Audacity brings with it genius, power and magic.

Goethe

It’s not because many of them are wrong that they are right.

Coluche

The human has this choice: let the light in or keep the shutters closed.

Henry Miller

The warm and lively beauty of touch is much deeper than the beauty of wisdom.

Charles Dickens

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods : they kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare

Only fools and oysters adhere.

Paul Valéry

What can a man have apart of his life and his death?

Carlos Castaneda

Uniting with our inner divinity is the ultimate purpose of human existence.

Aldous Huxley

The warrior who travels all along his timeline is a wall-pass that shows us the way to go.

Lao Surlam

Fuck, it’s tilting! I can see the void through the lining!

Alain Souchon

The defeated God becomes the devil of the religion that follows.

Pierre Dominique

A man gets tied up to the ground / Gives the world its saddest sound.

Simon and Garfunkel

Believing in official history is taking the word of criminals.

Simone Weil

A person often meets destiny on the road taken to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine

Man has this choice: let light in or keep the shutters closed.

Norman Mailer

You have to dance in chains.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Being gentle towards yourself helps to be gentle with others.

Brene Brown

“If you want to entertain God, tell him about your plans.”

Russian saying

True sages are those who give what they have, without malice and without secrecy.

Heraclitus

We shall overcome some day.

Joan Baez

When from the Two you have made the One, and from the top down, then you will go into the Kingdom.

Jesus

What you are criticized for, cultivate it, is you.

Jean Cocteau

Lucidity is the meeting place of consciousness and sensuality.

Norman Mailer

Many the pitfalls of complacency.

Carlos Castaneda

I walk on the path which is no longer the path but the walk.

Issa Joe Ouakam

There is no such thing as chance. Everything that happens is wanted.

Buddha

 Only what is fantastic is likely to be true.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Dying is nothing. What kills is getting old.

Lao Surlam

I don’t work for money and money doesn’t work for me.

Lao Surlam

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond any limit.

Nelson Mandela

Lucidity is the meeting place of consciousness and sensuality.

Norman Mailer

The truth is not in some distant place, it is in the act of looking that is. Seeing oneself as one is – in this lucidity which enters no option – is the beginning and the end of all research.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no chance. Everything that happens is willed.

Buddha

Rely on dreams for in them is hidden the door to eternity.

Khalil Gibran

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

Mohandas Gandhi

Let’s live every day as if it were the last. Because one day it will be true.

Woody Allen

“There is a time to get comfortable and a time to forget comfort.”

Anemone

Everything is energy, everything is subtle, the gross is only in the one who looks.

Charles Bukowski

Many such Cockney travellers roam, Who Chelsea take for ancient Rome : They speak of all they have not seen, As if upon the spot they’d been.

Jean de La Fontaine

Is that the way people live? And their kisses are following them as revolved suns.

Louis Aragon

The world is wide but inside it is as deep as the sea.

Rainer Maria Rilke

You may say I’m a dreamer but I’m not the only one.

John Lennon

“The idleness of the wise man lacks only a better name, and that meditation, speaking, reading, and being quiet was called work.”

La Bruyère

Humanity is mentally controlled and it is little more conscious that an average zombie.

David Icke

I believe in the force of spirit and I will not leave you.

François Mitterrand

The angels gave birth to giants and monsters. They gave birth and the whole earth was corrupted. 

Bible

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Carl Gustav Jung

You want a better world, more fraternal, more just ? Well start doing it : who’s stopping you ? Do it in you and around you, do it with those who want to make it. Do it small and it will grow.

Carl Gustav Jung

I am master of myself as of the universe. I am, I want to be.

Pierre Corneille

The right place for a heart is not in the hand but in the chest.

Lao Surlam

Religions have existed since the first hypocrite met the first fool.

Voltaire

All that is pure is undrinkable.

Paul Claudel

Of all those who have nothing to say, the most pleasant are those who keep silent.

Coluche

There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. But for the universe, I have no absolute certainty.

Albert Einstein

You just have to wonder how to use correctly the power you have.

Carlos Castaneda

As long as you live, take care not to judge people on the look.

Jean de La Fontaine

Imagine there is no country, no religion.

John Lennon

There is no pessimists There is only well informed optimists.

Patrick Timsit

If the Devil sometimes speaks, God is always silent. We must find the answers alone.

René Barjavel

There is a light at the end of every tunnel … we just have to pray this is not a train.

Woody Allen

“Some dragons look dead when in fact they are in a state of deep meditation”

Lewis Trondheim

If Christianity had been arrested in its growth by some mortal disease, the world would have been mithraic.

Ernest Renan

Hell is others.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Innumerable are our ways and our uncertain residences.

St John Perse