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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
    tags: honesty, self-delusion
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
    tags: dogmatism, science, scientism, wonder
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
    tags: success
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
    tags: art, ideas, inspiration, writing
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  • #10
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93747 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
    39954 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
    31571 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
    31291 likes

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    Wassily Kandinsky
    “Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
    ― Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art
    tags: aesthetics, artist, color, music, soul
    84 likes

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    Wassily Kandinsky
    “Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.”
    ― Wassily Kandinsky , Concerning the Spiritual in Art
    tags: abstraction, art, paintings, science
    142 likes

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    Wassily Kandinsky
    “That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.”
    ― Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art
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    Janet Fitch
    “I imagined Kandinsky's mind, spread out all over the world, and then gathered together. Everyone having only a piece of the puzzle. Only in a show like this could you see the complete picture, stack the pieces up, hold them to the light, see how it all fit together. It made me hopeful, like someday my life would make sense too, if I could just hold all the pieces together at the same time.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
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    Wassily Kandinsky
    “The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.”
    ― Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art
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    Wassily Kandinsky
    “The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.”
    ― Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Convictions are prisons.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzche, The Birth of Tragedy/Seventy-five Aphorisms/The Anti-Christ
    tags: convictions, inspirational
    97 likes

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    Thomas Merton
    “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
    ― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island
    tags: art
    3383 likes

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    Thomas Merton
    “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
    ― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
    tags: friendship, love, self-discovery, trust, truth
    4124 likes

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    Thomas Merton
    “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
    ― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu
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    Thomas Merton
    “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”
    ― Thomas Merton, Love and Living
    tags: connection, destiny, fate, life, love, meaning
    1151 likes

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    Thomas Merton
    “You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”
    ― Thomas Merton
    tags: courage, faith, hope, possibility
    1021 likes

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  • #28
    Thomas Merton
    “Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.”
    ― Thomas Merton
    282 likes

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  • #29
    Eugène Ionesco
    “Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”
    ― Eugene Ionesco
    260 likes

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    Jacques Lacan
    “Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
    ― Jacques Lacan
    tags: lovers
    224 likes

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  • #31
    Jacques Lacan
    “What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

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    ― Jacques Lacan
    348 likes



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