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#1

“Whoever has no house now, will never have one.
Whoever is alone will stay alone,
will sit, read, write long letters through the evening,
and wander on the boulevards, up and down,
restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing.”
― Reiner Maria Rilke

tags: alone, autumn, home, letters

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#2

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world

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#3

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: atheism, philosophy

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#4

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

tags: philosophy

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#5

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#6

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy

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#7

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: drugs, philosophy, politics

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#8

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: inspirational, values

2791 likes

#9

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, philosophy, religion

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#10

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism

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#11

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars

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#12

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

tags: discipline, education, mentoring, philosophy

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#13

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: morality, philosophy

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#14

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy

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#15

“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
― Judy Blume

tags: books, censor, communication, freedom, philosophy

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#16

“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: philosophy

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#17

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: philosophy

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#18

“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

tags: body-image, books, depression, insecurity, isolation, language, laughter, literature, philosophy, self-consciousness, self-image, self-loathing, shame, social-anxiety

1956 likes

#19

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: happiness, loneliness, melancholy, philosophy, psychology

2692 likes

#20

“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
― Jose Marti

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

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#21

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting

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#22

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance

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#23

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting

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#24

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, politics, predictions, voter, voting

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#25

“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
― Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World

tags: communism, democracy, dishonesty, funny, humour, politicians, politics, revolution, socialism

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#26

“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
― Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, liberty, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism, utilitarianism

619 likes

#27

“Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: democracy, diversity, minorities

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#28

“Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.”
― Walt Whitman, Complete Prose Works

tags: churches, conflict, credulous, curious, democracy, fable, fossil, glorious, instructive, literature, mythic, poetry, primitive, prose, schools, science, science-vs-religion, spectacle, superstitious, testing, theology, untaught

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#29

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
― H.L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy

tags: belief, democracy, government, humor, ignorance, intelligence, pathetic, political-commentary, politics, public-office

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#30

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
― Adam Smith

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

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