#aphorism

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight. ↗

— Marina Tsvetaeva

#russian-poetry #tsvetaeva #wisdom #freedom

If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#courage

The shortest distance between two points is always under construction. ↗

— Rebecca McClanahan

#life #life

Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free. ↗

— William Penn

#art

That which yields is not always weak. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#flexibility #weakness

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#carefree #laughter #seldom #sometimes #triumphant

I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho’ awkwardly, for his Word’s sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it. ↗

— William Penn

#life

The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us- is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority... ↗

— Thomas Stockmann; Thomas Stockman

#majority #nietzche #freedom

Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny-quotes #humor-quotes #inspirational #iving #making-a-difference

The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as a whole, not directed by his reason and its designs; so that no one becomes this or that because he wants to, though he want to never so much, but that his conduct proceeds from his inborn and inalterable character, is narrowly and in particulars determined by motivation, and is thus necessarily the product of these two factors. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#existentialism #maxims #schopenhauer #design