Bertrand Russell's Best: Silhouettes in Satire (1958), "On Religion".<!--originally taken from What is an Agnostic? (1953).-->
1950s
Contexto: I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Fonte: Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
“Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
Fonte: Memoirs
“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
Fonte: The Gunslinger
“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
“It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.”
C'est un merveilleux assaisonnement aux plaisirs qu'on goûte que la présence des gens qu'on aime.
Act V, sc. iv
Le Misanthrope (1666)
“I am a part of everything that I have read.”
“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”
Há muitas coisas engraçadas no mundo; entre elas, a noção do homem branco de que ele é menos selvagem do que os outros selvagens.
Fonte: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”
“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
As quoted in My Favorite Quotations (1990) by Norman Vincent Peale
Table-Talk (1857)
Fonte: The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?”
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983), p. 228
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
O problema de ter uma mente aberta, é claro, é que as pessoas insistem em aparecer e tentar colocar as coisas nela.
The Nome Trilogy (1989 - 1990)
Variante: The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.
Fonte: Diggers (1990)
Helen Adams Keller (p. 60. Helen Keller's Journal: 1936-1937, Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1938)
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
Variante: One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”
From Sex book
Variante: A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.
“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
“Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?”
Fonte: Going Postal
As quoted in Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations (1990) by Sy Safransky, p. 42
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
Senhor, minha preocupação não é se Deus está ao nosso lado; minha maior preocupação é estar ao lado de Deus, porque Deus é sempre certo.
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
Se vi mais longe foi por estar de pé sobre ombros de gigantes.
Letter to Robert Hooke (15 February 1676) [dated as 5 February 1675 using the Julian calendar with March 25th rather than January 1st as New Years Day, equivalent to 15 February 1676 by Gregorian reckonings.] A facsimile of the original is online at The digital Library https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/9792. The quotation is 7-8 lines up from the bottom of the first page. The phrase is most famous as an expression of Newton's but he was using a metaphor which in its earliest known form was attributed to Bernard of Chartres by John of Salisbury: Bernard of Chartres used to say that we [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter. And this is not at all because of the acuteness of our sight or the stature of our body, but because we are carried aloft and elevated by the magnitude of the giants. Modernized variants: If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Variante: If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.
Fonte: The Correspondence Of Isaac Newton
“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
Vivemos numa época em que as coisas desnecessárias constituem as nossas únicas necessidades.
“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
“Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.”
Fonte: Human, All Too Human
In a letter to Ada Leverson [Sphinx] recorded in her book Letters To The Sphinx From Oscar Wilde and Reminiscences of the Author (1930)
“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble”
“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
Nelly Dean (Ch. VII).
Wuthering Heights (1847)
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
Nossa vida mais real acontece quando vivemos nossos sonhos acordados.
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
Fonte: Meditations
“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”
Fonte: The Poems of John Donne; Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of
“Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.”
“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
Hoje tenho sucesso pois um amigo acreditou em mim e não tive coragem de o desapontar.
“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”
“The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.”
Fonte: Monstrous Regiment
“This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.”
Usenet
“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.”
Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988), edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281
General sources
“Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.”
Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus
Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.
Book III, line 425
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Fonte: Heroides
Contexto: Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
“Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
Uma vida gasta cometendo erros não é apenas mais honrosa, mas mais útil que uma vida não fazendo nada.
Preface
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Variante: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Contexto: Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
“Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.”
Fonte: Frost Burned
“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
Fonte: Twilight of the Idols
“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Você não pode confiar em seus olhos quando sua imaginação está fora de foco.
Ch. 43 http://www.literature.org/authors/twain-mark/connecticut/chapter-43.html
Fonte: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”
Não pergunte o que você pode fazer pelo seu país. Pergunte o que é para o almoço.
“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
Primeiro, informe-se dos factos; depois, pode distorcê-los quanto quiser.
As quoted in "An Interview with Mark Twain" http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/seatosea/chapter37.html, From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel (1899) by Rudyard Kipling, Ch. 37, p. 180
Commonly paraphrased as: "First get your facts, then you can distort them at your leisure."
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
Uma ideia que não é perigosa não merece ser chamada de ideia.
The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, edited by Alvin Redman (1954)
“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be…”
Song All You Need Is Love
“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
Fazer o que é útil, dizer o que é corajoso, contemplar o que é belo: isso é suficiente para a vida de um homem.
Fonte: The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
Fonte: Modern Man in Search of a Soul, p. 69
Variante: A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
Fonte: Bag of Bones
“We all shine on… like the moon and the stars and the sun… we all shine on… come on and on and on…”
Variante: Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
Fonte: Song Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
Os livros servem para mostrar a um homem que esses pensamentos originais não são muito novos, afinal de contas.
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
16
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Variante: A cage went in search of a bird.
“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”
Fonte: Man and Crisis (1962), p. 94.
“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
Fonte: Guards! Guards!
“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
“Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.”
“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”
Notebook E (1945) edited by Edmund Wilson
Quoted, Notebooks
“A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.”
O homem sábio cria mais oportunidades do que as encontra.
Of Ceremonies and Respect
Essays (1625)
Variante: Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Fonte: The Essays
“Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
Book VIII, Chapter 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
“I am not bound to please thee with my answers.”
Fonte: The Merchant of Venice
“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Variante: I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.”
XII, 17
Fonte: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XII
Contexto: If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it. For let thy efforts be
“Only the shallow know themselves.”
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
Fonte: Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Todo o retrato que é pintado com sentimento é um retrato do artista e não do modelo
Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray