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#1

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: freedom, solitude

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#2

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

tags: psychology

1219 likes

#3

“Life is a constant process of dying.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: philosophy-of-life

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#4

“If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: confidentiality, gossip, secrets

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#5

“There is some wisdom in taking a gloomy view, in looking upon the world as a kind of Hell, and in confining one's efforts to securing a little room that shall not be exposed to the fire.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims

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#6

“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

tags: animals, cruelty, goodness

832 likes

#7

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

5848 likes

#8

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

4934 likes

#9

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: change, mind, nietzsche

3786 likes

#10

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: darkness

2670 likes

#11

“Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

2125 likes

#12

“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

1580 likes

#13

“In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: christian-behavior, christianity, religion

1220 likes

#14

“Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

794 likes

#15

“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: self-deception

698 likes

#16

“Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

432 likes

#17

“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

616 likes

#18

“The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#19

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
― Franz Kafka

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#20

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life

1260 likes

#21

“I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.”
― Kafka, Franz

818 likes

#22

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: philosophy

1160 likes

#23

“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: deception

965 likes

#24

“People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

623 likes

#25

“He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”
― Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

tags: mortal, secret

657 likes

#26

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
― Sigmund Freud

tags: emotion, expression, freud, repression, self-expression

1707 likes

#27

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: psychiatry, sanity

1041 likes

#28

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

3535 likes

#29

“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
― Plato, The Symposium

1510 likes

#30

“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ”
― Plato

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