My favorite quotes

• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. — Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde

• Try not. Do or do not. – Yoda 
• When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you. – Nietzsche 
• The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it. – Nietzsche 
• Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable. – Shakespeare 
• When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. – Sherlock Holmes 
• Ideologies separate us, dreams and anguish bring us together. – Eugene Ionesco 
• The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. – Nietzsche 
• There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. – Voltaire 
• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. – Albert Einstein
• In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. – George Orwell 
• No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. – Elbert Hubbard 
• The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but… that this humiliation is seen by everyone. – Milan Kundera 
• Our life is made by the death of others. – Leonardo da Vinci 
• Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate.（Abandon hope, all ye who enter here). – Dante 
• Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. – Benjamin Franklin 
• What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically but the senselessness of suffering. – Friedrich Nietzsche 
• All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. – Edgar Allan Poe  
• He has come such a long way, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. But he did not know that it was already behind him. – The Great Gatsby