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#1

“No doubt, God took a risk with creation by granting it consciousness and free decision.”
― Eliezer Berkovits, God, Man and History

tags: god, judaism, religion

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#2

“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
― Frank Herbert

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#3

“The foundation of religion is not the affirmation that God is, but that God is concerned with man and the world; that, having created the world, he has not abandoned it, leaving it to its own devices; that he cares for his creation.”
― Eliezer Berkovits

tags: judaism, religion

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#4

“When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.”
― Frank Herbert, The Godmakers

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#5

“Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.”
― Frank Herbert

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#6

“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

686 likes

#7

“You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: awakening, revolution

85 likes

#9

“The universe does not work by our rules”
― Frank Herbert, Destination: Void

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#10

“A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

71 likes

#11

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: dune

2532 likes

#12

“The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.”
― Friedrich A. Hayek

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#13

“I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.”
― F.A. Hayek

tags: social-justice

60 likes

#14

“Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.”
― Friedrich von Hayek

tags: communism, fascism

161 likes

#15

“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: learning, science

519 likes

#16

“Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad.”
― Friedrich A. Hayek

tags: economics, free-market, freedom, liberty

51 likes

#16

“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”
― Ayn Rand

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#17

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

tags: paradox

2459 likes

#19

“Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.”
― Ayn Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It?

tags: excuses, rationalization

252 likes

#19

“The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.”
― Ayn Rand

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#21

“A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.”
― Ayn Rand

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#22

“I am, therefore I'll think.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart

378 likes

#23

“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: inspirational

745 likes

#24

“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: self-acceptance, self-awareness

1973 likes

#25

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: fight, happiness, learn

3285 likes

#26

“There is a war between the rich and poor,
a war between the man and the woman.
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.”
― Leonard Cohen, New Skin for the Old Ceremony

tags: humor

13 likes

#27

“You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little jew who wrote the Bible.
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival.”
― Leonard Cohen, The Future

tags: inspirational

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#28

“Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

tags: reality

270 likes

#29

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

tags: hope, light

3045 likes

#30

“חלילה לנו מאל שנאמין בנמנע ובמה שהשכל מרחיקו ורואינו כנמנע”
― יהודה הלוי, ספר הכוזרי

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#31

“חלילה לאל מהיות דבר התורה סותר עדות דבר הנראה עין בעין, או דבר שהוכח במופת שכלי”
― יהודה הלוי, ספר הכוזרי

tags: judaism

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