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  • #1
    Oliver Sacks
    “Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
    Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

  • #2
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “An entire mythology is stored within our language.”
    Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • #3
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
    Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • #4
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
    Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • #5
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “I am my world.”
    Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • #6
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.”
    Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • #7
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
    Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

  • #8
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

  • #9
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

  • #10
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I don't have teeth anymore.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

  • #11
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #12
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #13
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
    It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #14
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #15
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “We are our choices.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #16
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #17
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu

  • #18
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #19
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

  • #20
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #21
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #22
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #23
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #24
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”
    Jean Paul Sarte

  • #25
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Words are loaded pistols.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #26
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #27
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #28
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
    Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

  • #29
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
    Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

  • #30
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
    W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up



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