Optimismo Inteligente Quotes & Sayings

Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel,
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will. — Edmund Spenser

The greatness of the enterprise does not always ensure success, but at least ensures glory. — Gertrudis Gomez De Avellaneda

Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard. — Jim Thome

I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change. — Bill De Blasio

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health. — Samuel Johnson

I don't want to be overly dramatic about it, but I think people more and more wonder, is this living, or are we just going through the motions? What's happening? Is everything being leached out of life? Is the whole texture and values and everything kind of draining away? — John Zerzan

Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory procedure and a practically costly one. The bourgeois is the measure of the price paid, he who most of all cannot afford to look to his real self, who denies the existence of the thinly boarded-over basement in him, who is most made over for the purposes of a society that does not even promise him perfection or salvation but merely buys him off. — Allan Bloom

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers. — Robert Scheer

Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness — Graham Greene

Whiskey and Beer are a man's worst enemies... but the man that runs away from his enemies is a coward! — Zeca Pagodinho

I am sure antidepressants, drugs, and liquor have their place. But so far, that place is in others, not me. — John Elder Robison

Keep your body sharp to keep your mind sharp. It pays off. — Justine Musk

If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of the truth ... In such manner did I dream of the truth. — Johannes Kepler