Quote of the dayAugust 1
Quotes for August 146 quotes · 38 authors
The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every August 1: the anniversary does not move.
- I still believe in a place called Hope.
3.2 · 37 votes · 97 reads
- Ideas too are a life and a world.
4.9 · 20 votes · 82 reads
- In politics, nothing is contemptible.
3.6 · 33 votes · 130 reads
- It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.Robert Bresson
Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century
3.8 · 15 votes · 91 reads
- Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
3.0 · 51 votes · 183 reads
- To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.Jean Baudrillard
PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century
3.5 · 25 votes · 35 reads
- Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
Thomas HobbesPhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century
3.1 · 26 votes · 131 reads
- Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, ''Lighthouses'' as the poet said ''erected in the sea of time.'' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treas
Arthur SchopenhauerPhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century
3.4 · 47 votes · 79 reads
