"Never argue with idiots. You will stoop to their level, where they will crush you with their experience." Mark Twain
"Life flies by, and one longs to live.
And hearts blindly rush
Between an idiot's optimism
And a sage's pessimism..."
I. Guberman
Every person considers their own wisdom flawless,
as every mother considers her own child beautiful.
*Saadi of Shiraz, "Gulistan, or the Rose Garden"
In fact, the illusion is not the choice itself, but how we understand it! For example, you are asked to choose between an apple
and a pear. Do you think you are choosing between an apple and a pear? No, that is an illusion.
In reality, you are choosing between your idea of a pear
and your idea of an apple. You choose between what you think about the pear
and what you think about the apple. That is your reality. *Iosif Lazarev, "Spiritual Numerology: The Language of Numbers."
"The main rule of reality is not to get lost in your illusions." "Inception" — film
"Illusions attract us because they relieve us of pain, and in its place bring pleasure. For this, we must accept without complaint that when they contradict part of reality, illusions shatter into pieces." Z. Freud
"The masses have never thirsted for truth. They want illusions, without which they have no possibility of existing."
Sigmund Freud
"The Internet does not bring people closer. It is a gathering of loneliness. We seem to be together, but each person is alone. The illusion of communication, the illusion of friendship, the illusion of life..."
Janusz Leon Wiśniewski, "Loneliness on the Net"
"A person feels uncomfortable when talking about themselves. Give them a mask, and they will tell you the whole truth." Oscar Wilde
"If you tell only the truth, you don't need to remember anything." Mark Twain
"Why did Bulgakov write in The Master and Margarita that telling the truth is easy and pleasant? That is an inaccurate formulation. Telling the truth is indeed easy in terms of energy expenditure, while lying requires much more energy, which is why liars tire more quickly. But both truth and lies have consequences. And the consequences of truth told 'easily and pleasantly' are often so terrible… A lie, on the contrary, exists precisely to minimize the unbearable nature of the consequences."
Alexandra Marinina, "The Bitter Quest"
"Everything, including lies, serves the truth. Shadows do not extinguish the sun." Franz Kafka
"The surest sign of truth is simplicity and clarity. A lie is always complicated, ornate, and verbose." L. N. Tolstoy
"Three things cannot be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
"Truth is that which withstands the test of experience."
Albert Einstein
"If you suspect someone of lying, pretend to believe him; then he lies more blatantly and gets caught. But if a truth he would like to hide slips into his words, pretend not to believe him; he will reveal the rest of the truth as well."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"As soon as we feel anger during an argument, we stop fighting for the truth; we begin fighting for ourselves." Thomas Carlyle"
"But the criterion of truth lies neither in reason nor in intellect, but in the integral spirit. The heart and conscience remain the supreme organs for evaluating and understanding the meaning of things." N. A. Berdyaev
"Truth reveals itself only to a healthy spirit in a healthy body"
Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach
"One gazes at the heavens with a plea,
Another demands life's generosity.
But the hour will come—and both will tremble:
The path of truth is neither this nor that."
Omar Khayyam
"Do not furrow your brow because of fate's blows,
The broken in spirit perish before their time.
Neither you nor I have power over destiny.
It is wiser to reconcile oneself to it; there is more to be gained."
Omar Khayyam
"For one's own self is one's own master. Who else could be one's master? The person who is humble before his own self finds a master who is difficult to find."
Shakyamuni Buddha
"To the one who rids themselves of idle chatter, wisdom will be given. To the one who rids themselves of the habit of showing excessive curiosity, modesty and humility will be given. To the one who rids themselves of the habit of seeking out flaws in others, the ability to correct the shortcomings of their own soul will be granted."
Umar ibn al-Khattab
Fate will find you even on the stove!!!
Author unknown.
There is no point blaming fate, for you yourself did everything to make it this way.
Author unknown.
Sometimes a person is forced to bow before their unlucky star; to bow, but not prostrate themselves.
George Savile, Marquess of Halifax.
The fate of cities, like the fate of people, turns like a wheel.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger.
"He looked at the stars, and it seemed to him that they were gracefully and majestically dancing some slow, infinitely complex dance. He imagined their pale, smiling faces. Of course—for the stars had watched the world from the heavens for so long, seeing all its bustle, and the joys and sorrows of people... They were probably amused whenever another human being decided that they were the center of the universe, as is characteristic of us all."
Neil Gaiman "Stardust"
"All the people we meet in life are ourselves."
Elchin Safarli
"The universe is constantly working on you, transforming you both inwardly and outwardly. Every person is an unfinished creation that, unhurriedly, step by step, moves toward perfection. We are all unfinished sketches that will inevitably become completed works of art."
Elif Shafak
The most important thing is not to scare the fairy tale away,
To fling open the windows to the boundless world.
My little sailboat races on, my little sailboat races on,
My little sailboat races on toward a fairy-tale journey.
"Be here, live now! No one lives in the present; everyone lives in the future or in the dead past. That is why many people do not find their path. But when you sing, feelings pass through your heart, wonderful sounds of harmony arise, and a miracle happens—you are in the present. You are alive."
Valery Kotov, "A Song About a Dream"
"Nothing can happen to you as long as you walk the right path. Troubles occur only when you turn away from it. This is an axiom."
Matsuo Monroe, "Teach Me to Die"
"Life without love is meaningless. Love is the water of life. Drink it with your heart and soul." Jalaluddin Rumi
"Love is the beginning and the end of our existence. Without love, there is no life. Because love is that before which a wise person bows." Confucius