“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
More from Napoleon on Philosophy
“To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.”
“The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.”
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
“The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.”
“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”
“Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”
“The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.”
“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”
“Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.”
“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”
Others on Philosophy
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Paul Valéry
13 quotes“The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.”
Charlotte Brontë
13 quotes“Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are...”