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    Lao Tzu
    “If you are depressed you are living in the past.
    If you are anxious you are living in the future.
    If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: misattributed, misattributed-lao-tzu
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    William Blake
    “Great things are done when men and mountains meet; this is not done by jostling in the street.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: jostling, mountain
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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    Terence McKenna
    “Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.”
    ― Terence McKenna
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    Douglas Adams
    “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: ape, digital, earth, galaxy, humour, perspective, primitive, unfashionable, watches
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    Joscha Bach
    “The opposite of freewill is not determinism, it's compulsion.”
    ― Joscha Bach
    tags: freewill
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    Joscha Bach
    “An organism is not a collection of cells; it’s a function that tells cells how to behave. And this function is not implemented as some kind of supernatural thing, like some morphogenetic field, it is an emergent result of the interactions of each cell with each other cell.”
    ― Joscha Bach
    tags: cell, emergent, intelligence, lex-fridman-podcast, organism, science, spirit
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  • #8
    “Lost'

    Stand still.
    The trees ahead and the bushes beside you Are not lost.
    Wherever you are is called Here,
    And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
    Must ask permission to know it and be known.
    The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
    I have made this place around you,
    If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here.

    No two trees are the same to Raven.
    No two branches are the same to Wren.
    If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
    You are surely lost. Stand still.
    The forest knows Where you are.
    You must let it find you.”
    ― David Wagoner
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    Alan W. Watts
    “Chuang-tzu: ‘‘The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror; it grasps nothing; it refuses nothing; it receives, but does not keep.”
    ― Alan W. Watts, Become What You Are
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    John Lennon
    “I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, dragons, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, fairies, faith, mythology, nightmares, reality, truth
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    John Green
    “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: amsterdam, freedom, sin
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    Sarah Dessen
    “It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
    tags: conduct-of-life, life, self-confidence, self-trust
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    Joscha Bach
    “Some people think that a simulation can’t be conscious and only a physical system can. But they got it completely backward: a physical system cannot be conscious. Only a simulation can be conscious. Consciousness is a simulated property of the simulated self.”
    ― Joscha Bach
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    William Blake
    “Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.”
    ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
    tags: experience, inspiration, unschooling
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    David Hume
    “Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
    ― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
    tags: beauty, beholder, evil, god, perception, religion, religious-meaning
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    David Hume
    “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”
    ― David Hume
    tags: emotions, philosophy, reason
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  • #20
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Albert Camus
    “I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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  • #23
    George Orwell
    “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: secrets
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: language, perception, power-of-words
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
    tags: philosophy, taoism
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Only describe, don't explain.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “I am my world.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: philosophy, solipsism
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
    tags: education, mind, social-anxiety
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    Immanuel Kant
    “He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
    ― Emmanuel Kant
    tags: animal-rights, cruelty, judge, morality, treatment
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    Immanuel Kant
    “Look closely. The beautiful may be small.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
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