“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.”

in Happiness, Nicolas de Chamfort, Writers

-Nicolas de Chamfort

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“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.”

in Edward Stanley, Wise, Writers

-Edward Stanley

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“We are concerned in this book with that condition of men in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society. This state we shall describe throughout as a state of liberty or freedom…The task of a policy of freedom must therefore be to minimize coercion or its harmful effects, even if it cannot eliminate it completely…Whether he is free or not does not depend on the range of choice but on whether he can expect to shape his course of action in accordance with his present intentions, or whether somebody else has power so to manipulate the conditions as to make him act in accordance to that person’s will rather than his own. Freedom thus presupposes that the individual has some assured private sphere, that there is some set of circumstances in his environment with which others cannot interfere.”

in F.A. Hayek, Liberty, Writers

-F.A. Hayek

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“It might be said that civilization begins when the individual in the pursuit of his ends can make use of more knowledge than he has himself acquired and when he can transcend the boundaries of his ignorance by profiting from knowledge he does not himself possess.”

in F.A. Hayek, Philosophical, Writers

-F.A. Hayek

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“Never answer an angry word with an angry word. It’s the second one that makes the quarrel.”

in W.A. Nance, Wise, Writers

-W.A. Nance

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“There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.”

in François de La Rochefoucauld, Love, Writers

-François de La Rochefoucauld

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“When you can’t solve the problem, manage it.”

in Business, Robert H. Schuller, Writers

-Robert H. Schuller

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