Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 6

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

We are the change we have been waiting for.

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands serenely above the politics of Germany, and I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over cities, we too will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

An idea is a feat of association.

Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

My most fundamental hope is for a worldwide attitude of tolerance, which will only come through education and an awareness of other cultures and religions. The more people are exposed to other philosophies and thoughts, the more possible it becomes to resolve world conflicts peacefully. Education builds tolerance for other points of view.

Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.