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#1

“In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.”
― John Barth

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#2

“Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.”
― John Barth

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#3

“Meaning lies as much
in the mind of the reader
as in the Haiku.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

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#4

“Freedom is the recognition of contingency.”
― Richard Rorty

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#5

“Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”
― Richard Rorty

tags: pragmatism, relativism, truth

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#6

“The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. ”
― Richard Rorty

tags: philosophy

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#7

“...the conscious need of the strong poet [defined broadly as the creator of new metaphors]...to come to terms with the blind impress which chance has given him, to make a self for himself by redescribing that impress in terms which are, if only marginally, his own.”
― Richard Rorty

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#8

“What you can imagine depends on what you know.”
― Daniel Dennett

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#9

“Words are memes that can be pronounced.”
― Daniel C. Dennett

tags: memes, words

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#10

“Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.”
― Daniel C. Dennett, Freedom Evolves

tags: free-will, philosophy, science

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#11

“If nobody cares, then it doesn't matter what happens to flowers.”
― Daniel C. Dennett, Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness

tags: inspirational

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#12

“Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.”
― Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained

tags: philosophy

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#13

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday

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#14

“Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.”
― Arthur Rackham

tags: art, painting

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#15

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

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#16

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: aging-well, disillusionment, growing-older, philosophy

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#17

“If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

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#18

“Impact is rewarding. Mattering makes us happy.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

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#19

“Each of us is trapped in a place, a time and a circumstance and our attempt to use our mind to transcend those boundaries are more often than not ineffective.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

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#20

“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”
― Leon C. Megginson

tags: adaptability, evolution, misattributed-to-darwin, survival, survival-of-the-fittest

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#21

“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.”
― Charles Darwin

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#22

“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”
― Charles Darwin

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#23

“Great is the power of steady misrepresentation”
― Charles Darwin

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#24

“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”
― Charles Darwin

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#25

“Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.”
― Charles Darwin

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#26

“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”
― Charles Darwin

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#27

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics

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#28

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

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#29

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing

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#30

“Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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