Quotes & Sayings30 Nietzsche Quotes, and What "God Is Dead" Actually SaysThe most famous sentence in modern philosophy is usually read as a boast. In context it is spoken by a madman and it is a warning. Thirty quotes with the book and section number.Quotes & Sayings
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Quotes & Sayings30 Nietzsche Quotes, and What "God Is Dead" Actually SaysThe most famous sentence in modern philosophy is usually read as a boast. In context it is spoken by a madman and it is a warning. Thirty quotes with the book and section number.
Quotes & SayingsVan Gogh Wrote 800 Letters. Here Are 30 Lines From Them.Van Gogh sold almost nothing and explained almost everything, in letters mostly to his brother Theo. Thirty lines from the correspondence, plus four famous ones that appear nowhere in it.
Quotes & SayingsDarwin's Most Quoted Sentence Is Not His: 30 That AreThe line about the species most adaptable to change was written by a business professor in 1963. Thirty quotes that really are Darwin's, from the books, the notebooks and the letters.
Quotes & Sayings30 Emily Dickinson Lines, With the Dashes Put BackDickinson published about ten poems in her lifetime and her editors removed her dashes, added titles and smoothed her rhymes. Thirty lines in the punctuation she actually used.
Quotes & SayingsEpictetus Never Wrote a Word: 30 Quotes From a Student's NotesEverything attributed to Epictetus was written down by a student sitting in his classroom. Thirty lines with the chapter they come from, and five modern inventions that circulate under his name.
Quotes & Sayings30 Benjamin Franklin Quotes, Most of Them Borrowed on PurposeFranklin wrote Poor Richard's proverbs under a fake name and admitted he collected most of them rather than inventing them. Thirty lines with their source, and five he gets credit for wrongly.
Quotes & SayingsSun Tzu in 30 Quotes, and Why No Two Translations AgreeThe Art of War is quoted in English through translators, not directly. Thirty lines from the 1910 Lionel Giles version, next to the smoother modern rewordings, plus four famous lines that are in no edition.
Quotes & Sayings30 Oscar Wilde Quotes: Paradox as a Working MethodWilde built almost every famous line the same way: take a respectable sentiment and reverse it. Thirty quotes with the play, novel or essay they come from, and four he never wrote.
Quotes & SayingsJane Austen in 30 Quotes, and Who Is Actually SpeakingHalf the lines quoted as Jane Austen's opinion are spoken by characters she is mocking. Thirty quotes with the novel, the chapter situation and the speaker named.
Quotes & Sayings30 Seneca Quotes From Letters He Wrote to One FriendSeneca's most quoted lines come from private letters to a single friend, not from a treatise. Thirty of them, with the work each belongs to, plus four famous ones he never wrote.
Quotes & SayingsFrederick Douglass in 30 Quotes: Struggle, Reading, and the Right to Say ItHe taught himself to read in secret, escaped slavery at twenty, and spent fifty years arguing in public. These lines come from his speeches and his own three autobiographies.
Quotes & SayingsLeonardo da Vinci in 30 Quotes: Work, Seeing, and Never Finishing AnythingHe filled seven thousand surviving notebook pages with observations, complaints and instructions to himself. These are thirty of them, from the notebooks rather than the posters.
Quotes & Sayings30 Confucius Quotes From the Analects, and What He Was Really ArguingMost Confucius quotes online were never said by Confucius. These come from the Analects, the collection his students assembled, with the book and chapter attached.
Quotes & Sayings30 Mark Twain Quotes He Actually Wrote — and Six He Definitely Didn'tTwain is the most misquoted writer in English. Here are thirty lines traced to a book, a letter or a notebook, and six famous ones that are not his at all.
Quotes & Sayings30 Marcus Aurelius Quotes From a Notebook He Never Meant You to ReadThe most powerful man in the world wrote these lines to himself, in Greek, on campaign, with no intention of publishing them. That is exactly why they still land.