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Aristotle

Philosopher

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

Activity - Existence - Life - Quality

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Daniel Kahneman

Psychologist, Economist

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

Impression - Judging - Opinion

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

Actions - Conscience - Creating - Expose - Human - Injustice - Medicine - Opinion - Ugly

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Vincent Van Gogh

Businessman, Artist, Painter

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Art - Faith - Opinion - Painting

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Rudyard Kipling

Writer, Journalist, Poet

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

Exception - Nervousness - Willing

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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

Altruism - Dictatorship - Existence - Individualism - Man - Morals - Oneself - Sacrifice - Value - Virtue

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Sun Tzu

Musician, Philosopher, Strategist

Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you.

Emptiness

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Exception

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Franz Kafka

Novelist, Writer

He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.

Emotions - Emptiness - Growing - Mornings - State - Weakness

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Winston Churchill

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Existence - Feelings - Personal

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.

Exercise - Feelings - Independence - Loss - Mindset - Opinion - Trial - Wants

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.

Acquiring - Honor - Indifference - Mindset - Opinion - Payment - People - Value - Views

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Benjamin Disraeli

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Book - Existence

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Sivananda

Author

There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.

Opinion - Quarrel - Truth - Views

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Leader, Philosopher, Writer

We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied.

Awakening - Emptiness - Noise - Satisfaction - Spiritual

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Konrad Lorenz

Statesman, Scientist, Zoologist

I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated than the game's rules; both art and actively solicited perceptions are but special cases of the recurring creative act to which we owe our existence.

Art - Belief - Creativity - Existence - Game - Human - Manifestation - Perception

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Rajneesh

Guru

The heart is always right - if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart - because mind is a creation of society. It has been educated. You have been given it by society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted.

Belief - Creativity - Education - Existence - Giving - Manifestation - Mindset - Society - Spiritual

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman, Orator, Lawyer, Philosopher

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Doing - Freedom - Man - Nothing - Sometimes

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.

Boundaries - Existence - Insight - Maintenance - Notions - Order - Persistence - Purpose - World

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.

Ambiguity - Man - Nobility - Opinion - People - Tendency - Views

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