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  • #1
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #2
    Lewis Carroll
    “Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland: Including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass
    tags: humor

  • #3
    Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
    “For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.”
    Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, The Crimson Curtain

  • #4
    Charles Darwin
    “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
    Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    John Lennon
    “There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”
    John Lennon

  • #7
    John Lennon
    “The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.”
    John Lennon

  • #8
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #9
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    Aristotle

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #11
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #13
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #14
    John Lennon
    “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
    John Lennon

  • #15
    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    C.S. Lewis
    “Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation--the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #18
    Terence McKenna
    “If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.”
    Terence McKenna

  • #19
    Terence McKenna
    “The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation”
    Terence Mckenna

  • #20
    Terence McKenna
    “Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.”
    Terence McKenna

  • #21
    Terence McKenna
    “Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.”
    Terence McKenna

  • #22
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.”
    Leo Tolstoy



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