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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “If you know the why, you can live any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, understanding
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science, sex
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
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  • #5
    Neil Young
    “It's better to burn out than to fade away.”
    ― Neil Young
    tags: death, end, life
    1343 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
    tags: humor, science
    4305 likes

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  • #7
    “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: inspirational, science
    3953 likes

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    Jordan B. Peterson
    “I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.”
    ― Jordan B. Peterson
    tags: beyond-good-and-evil
    669 likes

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    Jean Piaget
    “What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.”
    ― Jean Piaget
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    Thomas Babington Macaulay
    “The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
    ― Thomas Macaulay
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    G. Michael Hopf
    “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
    ― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain
    tags: philosophy, society
    819 likes

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    Martin Heidegger
    “he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors”
    ― Martin Heidegger
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    Martin Heidegger
    “only he who already understands can listen”
    ― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational
    8167 likes

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  • #15
    Richard Powers
    “The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”
    ― Richard Powers, The Overstory
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life, regrets
    18610 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
    tags: greatness
    3727 likes

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    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    “The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. ”
    ― J. Robert Oppenheimer
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    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    “If the radiance of a thousand suns
    Were to burst at once into the sky
    That would be like the splendour of the Mighty One...
    I am become Death,
    The shatterer of worlds.

    [Quoted from the Bhagavad Gita after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.]”
    ― J. Robert Oppenheimer
    tags: bhagavad-gita, burst, death, hinduism, hiroshima, mighty-one, nagasaki, radiance
    83 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177104 likes

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    William James
    “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
    ― William James
    tags: actions, attributed, change
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    Lao Tzu
    “Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: actions, character, destiny, habits, thoughts, words
    617 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
    tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life
    3132 likes

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    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: thinking
    7714 likes

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    Earl Nightingale
    “When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself”
    ― Earl Nightingale
    tags: critical, criticize, judge, judgement, judgemental
    455 likes

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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: caring, inspirational, love, roses, time
    5299 likes



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