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The Times Great Quotations: Famous quotes to inform, motivate and inspire

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It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist and psychiatrist (1870–1937)



Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)

Anatole France, French poet (1844–1924)



A man’s mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.

Ayala’s Angel (1881)

Anthony Trollope, English writer (1815–1882)



I have taken great care not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Tractatus Politicus (1677)

Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)



Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and writer (1872–1970)



One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.

In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935)

Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and writer (1872–1970)



The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962)

Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875–1961)



The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)

Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875–1961)



Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.

Cosmos (1980)

Carl Sagan, American astronomer and educator (1934–1996)



My life is spent in a perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely, and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored.

The Observer (1948)

CEM Joad, English philosopher (1891–1953)



Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)

Charles Dickens, English writer and social critic (1812–1870)



Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.

Mere Christianity (1952)

CS Lewis, British literary scholar and writer (1898–1963)



Pleasure is a thief to business.

The Complete English Tradesman (1726)

Daniel Defoe, English trader, writer and spy (1660–1731)
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