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#1

“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: definition, doubt, humour, life, uncertainty

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#2

“Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: humor

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#3

“He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.”
― Brigham Young

tags: inspirational, insult, rage

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#4

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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#5

“Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

tags: existentialism

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#6

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: language, perception, power-of-words

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#7

“All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.”
― Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort

tags: education, humor

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#8

“There is no Mystery so great as Misery.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

tags: misery, mystery

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#9

“Now are the woods all black,
But still the sky is blue.”
― Marcel Proust , Swann’s Way

tags: paul-desjardins

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#10

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: inspirational

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#11

“Yet he loved, he wanted to live, he saw himself dying; that is enough to make a whole man.

Il a aimé, pourtant, il a voulu vivre, il s'est vu mourir; cela suffit pour faire tout un homme.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: death, life, love, wholeness

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#12

“That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: god

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#13

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

tags: bible, christianity, evolution, science

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#14

“Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.”
― Matthew Henry

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#15

“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
― Confucius

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#16

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen

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#17

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: inspirational, motivational

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#18

“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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#19

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: faith, god, prayer

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#20

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity

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#21

“There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.”
― Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2033

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#22

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

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#23

“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

tags: life, regret

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#24

“Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see”
― Soren Kierkegaard

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#25

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: awesome

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#26

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
― Bruce Lee

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