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War and peace quotes

War and peace quotes, aphorisms, ideas and thoughts about the dramatic difference between the effects of war and the desire of human kind for peace and love. World Day of Peace, celebrated …

The essence of aphorisms

The essence of aphorisms, an article that explains the laws of aphorism by James Geary with an introduction of Carl William Brown on this kind of literary and philosophical original genre. The …

Quotes on war, aphorisms, quotations, ideas, and famous sentences by great authors and writers about the stupidity of every war and the cruelty of armies and soldiers. Iustum est bellum, quibus necessarium. …

Gandhi best quotes

Gandhi best quotes, aphorisms, maxims, ideas, thoughts and words of wisdom by the mythical hero of non-violent protest, true religiosity and Indian independence. Mahatma Gandhi is revered the world over as one …

Best quotes on love

Best quotes on love. Faith is a mystery, love is a mystery, death is a mystery! However, I have never liked mysteries. Carl William Brown Teach only love for that is what …

World Quotations (Part 1)

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless. Mahatma Gandhi The only tyrant I accept in this …

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

Some people are right, you don't need to be educated to vegetate. Carl William Brown

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi

Quotes and aphorisms on love

Italy in brief

Short dictionary of literary terms

Aforismi volume quarto

Best quotes on books

Daimonology-synthetic-principles

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

The World of English, its language, its culture, its varieties, its future, and its infinite possibilities of communication in our small unique world.
Carl William Brown

Life is, in fact, a struggle. On this point pessimists and optimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty is beautiful, but rare; goodness is often apt to be weak, folly to be arrogant, and wickedness to prevail; fools in the places of honor and the best aloof; and humanity, as a whole, unhappy.
Henry James

As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.
Carl William Brown