Five of the Greatest Quotations of All Time

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Your thoughts are translated into words when you speak. Some words make you sad and some others feel your heart with joy. There are still some special words that illuminate your mind and removes darkness instantly. They are parts of what has been termed as quotations. In the following lines five of very important quotes have been presented. It is expected that you will love and acknowledge them.

One

‘Neither fire nor wind nor birth nor death can ever erase our good deeds.’

Good deeds have always been held high and because of those good deeds human beings are taken to the next station in their never-ending journey towards newer dawns. This quote is from Gautama Buddha.

Gautama Buddha was born in India more than twenty five hundred years ago. His tenets of love and nonviolence have stirred India and many other South Asian countries which include Japan, China and Tibet. He has been titled as the ‘Light of Asia’.

Two

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
 

Human beings cannot live alone. Man depends on everything which forms his environment and he depends on them from the days when he spends the first few months inside his mother’s womb. But it is also a fact that most of the human beings do not want to think for others. The very individual in him makes him very selfish and the results found are never good. It is, therefore, justified that one should live for others.

The quote is from Spinoza who was born in 1632 and in a Portuguese-Jewish family. Spinoza has been accepted as one of the great contributors to the Western philosophy. He has reigned and still has been reigning over the thought-process of the modern thinkers. The ‘prince’ of philosophers has lived as an ordinary lens grinder and has maintained very low profile during his lifetime.

Three

“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

This is from Friedrich Nietzsche. The globe of the present day has been justifying what he has thought. Violence breeds violence. When you practice violence to combat another form of violence a seeds of the worst, that is, of violence, is shared and accepted by you. And this retrieves an autocrat from the core of you one day.

This German philosopher was born in 1844. He was a philosopher and a philologist too.

Four

‘I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.’

This is a great realization, but greater is the person from whom people of the modern world have had this. In the conflict between everything and something she has taken side for something. But there is no conflict between the two entities. One should act to the best of one’s capacity and act with the best of one’s sincerity and seriousness. Something one day is recognized as one of the greatest things ever done under the sun.

Helen Keller, an enigma of nature, has been a prolific American writer. She was born in 1880 and was physically challenged from her birth. Yes, she was deaf-blind. Her teacher and mentor Anne Sullivan was perhaps greater than anybody known to the world. Helen Keller’s incessant campaign against war, her fight for workers’ rights and women’s suffrage are part of the modern history.

Five

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend”

This is from Albert Camus who has denounced servitude but has learned that “The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.”

Albert Camus was born in 1913 in the Algerian colony of France. His father was killed in the battlefield. Camus has secured fame as an exceptional novelist and journalist. He has studied a peculiar dualism in the nature of human beings who want freedom and at the same time wants to live like a slave.