Zitate

Hier einige meiner Lieblingszitate, die ich über die letzten Jahre angesammelt habe; sie sollen zu Gedanken inspirieren.

• reality is for people who can‘t face drugs.

• money doesnt buy happiness. it only rents it.

• we buy stuff we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like. (Fight Club)

• do what you love and you‘ll never work a day in your life.

• who looks outside, dreams – who looks inside, awakes

• having money is not everything not having it is

• social media is the cigarettes of our generation

• you cant appreciate fridays without having experienced a monday

• you spend the first years of a childs life teaching it how to walk and talk, then you spend the rest of its life telling it to shut up and sit down.

• good artists copy, great artists steal – pablo picasso

• we never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public

• we brought nothing to this world and it is certain

• we can carry nothing out

• we are a sad generation with happy pictures

• youre not a bank tranfer, you cant make everyone happy

• be something more than what you see in the mirror- let the world be – your mirror

• if people are free, they are not equal. If people are equal, they are not free.

• weed and alcohol becomes a problem when you rely on it when you‘re trying to hide your problems and not talk about it or cure it yourself.

• if you are not paying for the product then you are the product

• the reason for unhappiness is not not getting what you want but forgetting what you already have

• if we take every science book there is and destroy it- theyd all be back in 1000 years because sciene is constantly proven. fiction would never be there again.

• never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

• nothing really matters, we are just dramatic animals.

• On texting while driving: „People are willing to risk taking a life, and ruining their own, ‚cause they don’t want to be alone for a second

• Basically… „Life is like a piano. The white keys show happiness, and the black keys show sadness. But as you ventured on life’s journey, remember that the black keys also make music „

• I‘m everyones friend but never anyones first choice

• Wer in der demokratie schläft, wacht in der diktatur auf – goethe

• has it struck to you that life is all memory- expect for the one present moment that goes by so quick you hardly catch it going?

• its super complicated = I dont know what Im talking about

• great minds discuss ideas

• average minds discuss events

• small minds discuss people

• you have to start to learn how to listen instead of waiting for your time to speak

• nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing

• comparison is the thief of joy

• if you wanna see the true character of a person watch the way they treat someone that can‘t do anything for them

• a fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise men knows himself to be a fool. (Shakespeare)

• In this terrifying world, all we have is the connections that we make.

• I forget better shit than you ever thought of (Kanye West)

• do you ever just sit there and look up at the sky and think damn that shit is crazy

• science doesnt proof anything, it just reduces uncertainty

• two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. both are equally terrifying.

• to win an argument against a smart person is difficult. to win an argument against a dumb person is impossible.

• to live is the rarest thing. most people just exist.

• stanley kubrick is dead

• ich bewundere Picasso. Keiner hat sein Öl so teuer verkauft wie er. (arabischer Ölscheich)

• trying to make some sense of it all, but I can see it makes no sense at all

• Money in fact is the most successful story ever invented because ALL humans believe in it‘. That means ‚Money‘ is superior to ‚God‘ (as a fictional story)!

• when its more profitale to speak than to listen, its time to change your company (sokrates)

• Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups

• most people die at 25 and are not buried until they‘re 75 (benjamin franklin)

• dummheit ist nicht das fehlen von intelligenz, sondern die verweigerung der sinnesvermittlung.

• weve added years to life not life to years

• he who speaks the truth is the most hated

• if idiots could fly tik tok would be an airport

• we live in a society that is ashamed by nothing and offended by everything

• no one is hated more than the person who speaks the truth

• parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.

• nothing is real. we are some creatures trying to analyze the world from within. like a fish that has never been outside. we are just as insignificant to the universe as a single ant is to the world

• man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is

• we‘re going to die trying to live forever

• the best argument against democrazy is a 5min conversation with the average voter (w. churchill)

• too weird to live, to rare to die.

• as I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bore me, I pretended to agree. (Albert Camus)

• to find out who rules the world, simpy find who you are not allowed to criticize

• die jugend ist meist so allwissend, dass sie alles weiss bis auf eines: dass auch einmal die Alten allwissend waren, bis sie wirklich alles wussten.

• Bildung ist das, was übrigbbleibt, wenn man alles, was man gelernt hat, vergessen hat.

• its easier to fool someone than to convince someone they have been fooled.

• If I have seen further than others it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants (Isaac Newton)

• der reichtum gehört mir, du gehörst dem reichtum (Seneca)

• genius/ creativity is 99% perspiration (work) and 1% inspiration

• one death is a tragedy. a million deaths is a statistic (stalin)

• cigarettes: it costs a penny to make. sell it for a dollar. its addictive. (warren buffett)

• hard times create strong men. strong men create good times. good times create weak mens. weak mens create hard times.

• a friend to all is a friend to no one. (aristoteles)

• steter tropfen höhlt den stein
• Jugend ist die zeit weisheit zu studieren; alter ist die zeit, es zu üben. (rousseau)

• wer nix wird, wird wirt.

• the day the child realizes all aduldts are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes and adult; and the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

• the money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you. (Rousseau)

• ‚The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.‘ (Charles Bukowski)

• the definition of a hard word is easy. try to define an easy word.

• when i do good i feel good. when i do bad, i feel bad. that is my religion (Abraham Lincoln)

• Nicht derjenige ist am glücklisten der am Meisten hat, sondern derjenige, der am wenigsten braucht. (Nico Paech)

• intelligence without amibition is a bird without wings (dali)

• its easier to get everything (you want) then to not want anything. (self-quote inspired by tate)

• The most perfect dictatorship will have an appearance of a democracy (Aldous Huxley)

• Talent ist die spezifische, Genie die allgemeine Befähigung. (Hegel)

• oh brave new world, what have we done?

• Kapitalismus ist die legitime Gaunerei der herrschenden Klasse (Al Capone)

• Wise man speak because they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something (Platon)

• Der Mensch kann zwar tun was er will, aber er kann nicht wollen was er will (Schoppenhauer)

• „Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.“ (Carl Jung)

• I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. (Bertrand Russell)

• I do not know why we are here but I am quite sure it is not to enjoy ourselves (Wittgenstein supposedly)
• Warren Buffett über Gold: It gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

• Wer sich zum Wurm macht, kann nacher nicht klagen, dass er mit Füssen getreteten wird. (Kant)

• Most People Would Die Sooner Than Think – In Fact, They Do So (Russell)

• Liebe ist eine tolle Krankheit, da müssen immer gleich zwei ins Bett (Schopenhauer)

• „Heiraten heißt das Mögliche thun, einander zum Ekel zu werden. […] seine Rechte zu halbieren und seine Pflichten zu verdoppeln. […] Heiraten heißt, mit verbundenen Augen in einen Sack greifen und hoffen, dass man einen Aal aus einem Haufen Schlangen herausfinde.“(Schopenhauer)