„Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?“
— Miguel de Cervantes Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547 - 1616
Fonte: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 6.
„Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.“
1851
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
Contexto: Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne3
1804 - 1864Citações relacionadas
— Lin Yutang, livro The Importance of Living
Fonte: The Importance of Living (1937), Ch. I : The Awakening, p. 4
— Jonah Goldberg American political writer and pundit 1969
Fonte: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
„5222. To run the Wild-Goose Chace.“
— Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
— Cameron Diaz American actress 1972
Human the movie: Cameron's interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-HvL3TSf-8 ( New York Post http://nypost.com/2015/12/17/cameron-diaz-fame-will-never-make-you-happy/)
— Vernon Howard American writer 1918 - 1992
Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge
— Herbert Spencer English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist 1820 - 1903
Ethics (New York:1915), § 70, pp. 190-191
The Principles of Ethics (1897), Part I: The Data of Ethics
— George Fitzhugh American activist 1806 - 1881
Fonte: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 180
„It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.“
— Jack White American musician and record producer 1975
A message he left on his website to his fans, dated September 18th, 2003
2003
„Never use a conditional tense when it comes to money.“
— Edward St. Aubyn British writer 1960
At Last, Chapter 2
„I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.“
— Adolf Hitler Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party 1889 - 1945
Disputed, (1941-1944) (published 1953)
— Khalil Gibran Lebanese artist, poet, and writer 1883 - 1931
Khalil in Spirits Rebellious (1908) "Khalil The Heretic" Part 3
Contexto: Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes. He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. We came not into this life by exile, but we came as innocent creatures of God, to learn how to worship the holy and eternal spirit and seek the hidden secrets within ourselves from the beauty of life. This is the truth which I have learned from the teachings of the Nazarene.
— Octave Mirbeau, livro The Torture Garden
Variante: “It isn’t dying that’s sad. It’s living when you’re not happy.”
Fonte: Le Jardin des supplices
