Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixe…
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the st… Read more
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
930
02
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us.
920
03
One must imagine Sisyphus happy
860
04
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
860
05
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
830
06
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
820
07
We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
810
08
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
800
09
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
800
10
An unexamined life is not worth living.
790
11
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the oppo…
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
790
12
I believe that love that is true and real, creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well, which is the same thing. And then the man who is…
I believe that love that is true and real, creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well, which is the same thing. And then the man who is brave and true looks death squarely in the face, like some rhi… Read more
I believe that love that is true and real, creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well, which is the same thing. And then the man who is brave and true looks death squarely in the face, like some rhino-hunters I know or Belmonte, who is truly brave… It is because they make love with sufficient passion, to push death out of their minds… until it returns, as it does, to all men… and then you must make really good love again.
790
13
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
780
14
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
760
15
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
740
16
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
740
17
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
740
18
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
730
19
Not all those who wander are lost.
730
20
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
710
21
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans
710
22
I think, therefore I am.
710
23
But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phænomena, and I frame no hypotheses.
710
24
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
700
25
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
700
26
God does not play dice with the universe.
700
27
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
690
28
May the gods destroy that man who first discovered hours, he very man who first set up a sundial here, who smashed my day, alas, into fragments. When I was a boy, my stomach wa…
May the gods destroy that man who first discovered hours, he very man who first set up a sundial here, who smashed my day, alas, into fragments. When I was a boy, my stomach was my sundial, and the best and most accurate by far of all your… Read more
May the gods destroy that man who first discovered hours, he very man who first set up a sundial here, who smashed my day, alas, into fragments. When I was a boy, my stomach was my sundial, and the best and most accurate by far of all your time-telling devices. It always told you when you needed to eat (except when there was nothing to eat). But now, even when there is something to eat, you can't eat unless the sun agrees. And so now the town is filled to overflowing with sundials, but most people here crawl around all dried up with hunger.
690
29
May the gods destroy that man who first discovered hours, he very man who first set up a sundial here, who smashed my day, alas, into fragments. When I was a boy, my stomach wa…
May the gods destroy that man who first discovered hours, he very man who first set up a sundial here, who smashed my day, alas, into fragments. When I was a boy, my stomach was my sundial, and the best and most accurate by far of all your… Read more
May the gods destroy that man who first discovered hours, he very man who first set up a sundial here, who smashed my day, alas, into fragments. When I was a boy, my stomach was my sundial, and the best and most accurate by far of all your time-telling devices. It always told you when you needed to eat (except when there was nothing to eat). But now, even when there is something to eat, you can't eat unless the sun agrees. And so now the town is filled to overflowing with sundials, but most people here crawl around all dried up with hunger. – Aquilius (O. Ribbeck, *Scaenicorum Romanorum Fragmenta* 1.33)
690
30
‘MAYBE I DID NOT LIVE AS I OUGHT TO HAVE DONE,’ IT SUDDENLY OCCURRED TO HIM. ‘BUT HOW COULD THAT BE, WHEN I DID EVERYTHING I WAS SUPPOSED TO DO?’ HE REPLIED, AND IMMEDIATELY DIS…
‘MAYBE I DID NOT LIVE AS I OUGHT TO HAVE DONE,’ IT SUDDENLY OCCURRED TO HIM. ‘BUT HOW COULD THAT BE, WHEN I DID EVERYTHING I WAS SUPPOSED TO DO?’ HE REPLIED, AND IMMEDIATELY DISMISSED FROM HIS MIND THIS, THE SOLE SOLUTION OF ALL THE RIDDLES OF LIFE AND DEATH, AS SOMETHING QUITE IMPOSSIBLE.
680
31
If you are going through hell, keep going.
670
32
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
660
33
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
650
34
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one
640
35
The best way out is always through.
640
36
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
630
37
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
620
38
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence
620
39
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
620
40
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
600
41
I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
590
42
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
590
43
So many books, so little time.
580
44
keep your friends close but your enemies closer
580
45
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
580
46
Jev's the best
570
47
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken
570
48
it is not clear to me that love is a lesser value than truth—I like them both
570
49
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
560
50
It is not clear to me that love is a lesser value than truth — I like them both.
550
Every score is Jev’s own opinion. 0 is the least favorite; 1,000 is the absolute favorite.