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    Quintessential Quotes
    Quintessential Quotes
    Quintessential Quotes
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    Quintessential Quotes

    By Alexei Cohen

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    Quintessential Quotes includes the musings of great thinkers of all kinds and from all eras reflecting on subjects that matter today and will continue to matter tomorrow. These words form the pillars of modern thought and have shaped the way we view the world. Each is an intellectual seed that can lead to new horizons.

    Quintessential Quotes contains over 1,300 citations covering 250 subjects. Thinkers range from Aristotle to Zappa, from early Chinese gurus to 20th century politicians, from French philosophers to American naturalists and some of the greatest artists, poets, entrepeneurs, scientists, musicians and emperors that have ever lived.

    Quintessential Quotes can be used to find a quote by a specific person. For instance users can discover what Pablo Picasso thought about art (Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth) or how Marlon Brando viewed success (Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure). The book can also be used to browse hundreds of subjects like Truth (Truth is what most contradicts itself. Lawrence Durrell ) or Promises (The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it. Napoleon). Quintessential Quotes can be easily navigated using the subjects TOC or Index of Sources and each entry is lists the year it was written or spoken.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlexei Cohen
    Release dateOct 21, 2013
    ISBN9781311080189
    Quintessential Quotes
    Author

    Alexei Cohen

    I fell in love with Italy while watching the movie La Strada in the basement of my university library. Since then I have met and married an Italian, written and edited several guides and enjoyed a lot of pasta, wine and gelato. I live with my family on the outskirts of Rome and cultivate my passion for Italy a little more everyday. Moon Rome, Florence & Venice is my latest book and a result of months of exploration. I look forward to sharing what I have discovered and meeting travelers in Rome to swap stories over a cappuccino.

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      Quintessential Quotes - Alexei Cohen

      Quintessential Quotes

      Wise Words from Visionary Thinkers

      Compiled by

      Roger Evans & Alan Hall

      Edited by

      Alexei Cohen

      Copyright 2013 all rights reserved

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Preface

      This book was created by necessity more than anything else. Being passionate about quotes meant that for years we collected and wrote down every great saying we came across. We went out of our way to track down and preserve aphorisms, maxims, adages, and proverbs that contained exceptional insight. That led to our refrigerators being covered with catchy phrases, our wallets stuffed with memorable sentences and our computers bursting with unforgettable files. It got to the point however that finding a quote became nearly impossible and the knowledge they contained was lost in a labyrinth of notes.

      That’s why we decided to publish this book and arrange our quotes by subject and author in order to make finding them easier. Some quotes made the cut and others were left behind. The result is Quintessential Quotes and over 1,300 of the greatest things ever said about nearly everything. Now it’s possible to quickly locate quotes and use them for work, pleasure or simply to meditate upon. We believe reflecting on quotes is a valuable mental exercise and a wonderful way to examine the ideas that shaped our everyday beliefs.

      We hope this collection will be useful for you and that it becomes a valuable part of your digital reference library.

      Roger Evans

      Alan Hall

      Introduction

      A good aphorism serves as food for every epoch.

      -Nietzsche

      The way we think today is based largely on ideas that originated in the past. Ideas which have survived and remain as vibrant and true now as when they were first created. In many ways quotes exemplify these ideas and the ones in this collection are not just witty but contain something essential and universal. The best ones, and those we were after, provide a distinct way of viewing the world, often they are not understood immediately and may be interpretated in various ways. This complexity is what distinguishes Quintessential Quotes from sound bites and what provides readers with something to meditate on, assess and ultimately adopt or dismiss. Many of the quotes within the same subject present different points of view and it is up to readers to form their own opinion.

      You can learn a lot from a good quote. It is a shortcut to wisdom. Each one provides an entire philosophy in the nutshell of a sentence or two. If you consider the words carefully and follow the intellectual path they lead to then chances are you will see the world in a new way. Those are the kinds of quotes you’ll find in this collection. They have an aura of wisdom about them that the mind can chew on and perhaps even digest. They’re not as common as you might think but rather an endangered species in a universe of mundane, repetitive and mediocre language. Quintessential Quotes are not merely the result of elegant language but the tip of philosophical icebergs born from experience, wisdom and occasionally genius. They offer readers a unique opportunity to view life from a different intellectual angle in an instant.

      We have tried to keep Nietzsche’s words in mind when creating this collection and only included quotes with meat on them, that made us stop and broaden our thinking. What we included came from a diverse group of over 500 philosophers, writers, politicians, artists, historians, and thinkers who cross cultural, historical and geographic divides. They range from ancient Greek philosophers to 21st century singers and everyone in between who had something original to say in a memorable and insightful way. It’s very good company to be in and how Quintessential Quotes can facilitate thinking for thinking’s sake. We encourage readers to go neuron-to-neuron with some of the brightest minds who ever lived and come to their own conclusions about everything from Ability to Zeal. You may not always agree but you will learn more about your own beliefs in the process.

      Contents of Subjects

      A

      Ability

      Absence

      Absurd

      Achievement

      Acquaintances

      Acquisition

      Action

      Adjustment

      Admiration

      Adventure

      Adversity

      Advice

      Affection

      Aggression

      Agreement

      Alienation

      Ambition

      America and Americans

      Anger

      Animals

      Anxiety

      Appearance

      Architecture

      Argument

      Art and Artists

      Aspiration

      Association

      B

      Babies

      Beauty

      Behavior

      Belief

      Boldness

      Books

      Boredom

      Business

      C

      Capitalism

      Certainty

      Chance

      Change

      Character

      Children

      Choice

      Church

      Cities

      Civilization

      Common Sense

      Communism

      Community

      Competition

      Complacency

      Concealment

      Conformity

      Conscience

      Contentment

      Conversation

      Country

      Courage

      Creativity

      Culture

      D

      Death

      Deception

      Delay

      Democracy

      Desire

      Despair

      Destiny

      Difficulty

      Distrust

      Dreams

      Dress

      Drinking

      Duty

      E

      Eating

      Education

      Effort

      Emotion

      Enemies

      Envy

      Equality

      Error

      Existence

      Expectation

      Experience

      F

      Facts

      Failure

      Faith

      Fame

      Family

      Fantasy

      Fashion

      Fate

      Faults

      Fear

      Flattery

      Force

      Freedom

      Friendship

      Future

      G

      Genius

      God

      Goodness

      Government

      Greatness

      Greed

      Growth

      Guilt

      H

      Habit

      Happiness

      Hatred

      Heroes

      History

      Home

      Honesty

      Hope

      Humor

      Hunger

      Hypocrisy

      I

      Idealism

      Ideas

      Identity

      Ignorance

      Imagination

      Individuality

      Infidelity

      Innovation

      Integrity

      Intelligence

      Involvement

      J

      Jealousy

      Judgment

      Justice

      K

      Kindness

      Kissing

      Knowledge

      L

      Language

      Laughter

      Law

      Leadership

      Learning

      Liberty

      Life

      Literature

      Longevity

      Love

      Lying

      M

      Madness

      Mankind

      Marriage

      Maturity

      Memory

      Men and Women

      Middle Age

      Mind

      Money

      Morality

      Music

      N

      Nation

      Nature

      Necessity

      News

      Noise

      Novelty

      O

      Old Age

      Opinion

      Opportunity

      Optimism

      Originality

      Others

      P

      Parenthood

      Passion

      Past

      Patience

      Peace

      Perfection

      Persuasion

      Pleasure

      Politics

      Possession

      Poverty

      Praise

      Present

      Progress

      Promises

      Punishment

      Q

      Quarreling

      Quotations

      R

      Reality

      Reason

      Reform

      Religion

      Reputation

      Responsibility

      Revenge

      Revolution

      S

      Satisfaction

      Science

      Seasons

      Self

      Senses

      Sex

      Sickness

      Silence

      Sincerity

      Sleep

      Society

      Solitude

      Sorrow

      Style

      Success

      Suffering

      T

      Talent

      Taste

      Technology

      Television

      Temptation

      Thought

      Thrift

      Time

      Tolerance

      Tradition

      Travel

      Trust

      Truth

      U

      Uncertainty

      Understanding

      Unhappiness

      Unity

      Universe

      Usefulness

      V

      Value

      Vice

      Violence

      Virtue

      Vision

      Vocation

      Voting

      W

      War

      Weakness

      Wealth

      Weather

      Will

      Wisdom

      Wit

      Women

      Words

      Work

      World

      Writing

      Wrongdoing

      Y

      Youth

      Z

      Zeal

      A

      Ability

      Everyone must oar with the oars that he has.

      English Proverb

      Most do violence to their natural aptitude and thus attain superiority in nothing.

      Baltasar Gracian (1674)

      It is easier to appear worthy of positions we have not got than of those we have.

      La Rochefoucauld (1665)

      Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered hardest for us.

      Nietzsche (1886)

      Absence

      Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

      Thomas Fuller (1732)

      Sometimes when one person is missing the whole world seems depopulated.

      Lamartine (1820)

      Absence lessens ordinary people and augments great ones as wind blows out a candles and makes a fire blaze.

      La Rochefoucauld (1665)

      Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

      Tacitus (104)

      Absence makes the heart grow frozen not fonder.

      Judith Viorst (1986)

      Absurd

      If life life must not be taken too seriously then so neither must death.

      Samuel Butler (1900)

      Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that is has no meaning.

      Henry Miller (1941)

      There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

      Napoleon (1812)

      Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

      Jules Renard (1890)

      No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

      Seneca (1st century)

      Achievement

      It is not the going out of port but the coming that determines the success of a voyage.

      Henry Ward Beecher (1887)

      The reward

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