마오쩌둥
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
All reactionaries are paper tigers.
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
I voted for you during your last election.
In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
Khrushchev should get a one-ton medal.
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own.
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.
쇼펜하우어
공손과 인간성과의 관계는, 따스함과 밀초와의 관계와 같다.
부란 바닷물과 비슷하다. 마시면 마실수록 목구멍에 갈증이 오는 것이다.
신념은 연애와 같은 것이어서 강요할 수 없는 것이다.
약간의 근심, 고통, 고난은 항시 누구에게나 필요한 것이다. 바닥 짐을 싣지 않은 배는 안전하지 못하여 곧장 갈 수 없으리라.
인생의 최초 40년은 내게 텍스트를 부여하고, 나머지 30년도 그에 대한 주석을 부여해 준다.
지성이란 그것을 갖고 있지 않는 사람에게는 보이지 않는다.
아르투르 쇼펜하우어
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little dearth.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
I’ve never know any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly an
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, “Lighthouses” as the poet said “erected in the sea of time.” They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures
나쁜 책을 읽지 않는 것이야말로 좋은 책을 읽기 위한 조건이다. 인생은 짧고 시간과 능력에는 한계가 있다.
사람들은 자기의 올바른 이성과 양심을 닦기 위하여 애쓰는 것보다는 몇천배나 재물을 얻고자 하는 일에 머리를 짠다. 그러나 우리의 참된 행복은 우리 자신속에 있는 물건이 소중하지 곁에 있는 물건이 소중하지 않다.
여성에 있어서는 또한가지의 일 즉 어떤 남성의 마음에 들었느냐 하는 것만으로써 그 운명이 결정된다.
예의란 쓰면 쓸수록 자신에게 이익이 되는 아주 싼 지폐와도 같다.
우리의 인생이 그렇게 커 보이는 것은 현미경을 통해서 들여다볼 때 뿐이다. 인생이란 보일락말락한 하나의 점에 지나지 않는다. 그것이 시간과 공간이라는 강력한 렌즈를 통해서 당겨지고 확대되어 보일 뿐.
읽은 내용을 하나도 잊지 않으려고 드는 것은, 먹은 음식을 몸 안에 고스란히 간수하려는 것과 다름 없다.
책을 산다는 것은 좋은 일이다. 이와 함께 읽을 수 있는 시간까지 살 수 있다면 말이다. 그러나 사람들은 다만 책을 산 것만으로도 그 책의 내용까지 알게 된 것으로 착각한다.
행복의 십중팔구는 건강에 의해 거의 좌우된다. 그리고 만약 건강하다면 모든일은 즐거움과 기쁨의 원천으로 변한다.반대로 건강하지 못하면 어떤 외면적 행복도 즐거움도 없다.
에드워드 텔러
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.