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  • #1
    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

  • #2
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Health so far outweighs all external goods that a healthy beggars is truly more fortunate than a king in poor health.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
    tags: health

  • #3
    Jordan B. Peterson
    “Humility: It is better to presume ignorance and invite learning than to assume sufficient knowledge and risk the consequent blindness. It is much better to make friends with what you do not know than with what you do know, as there is an infinite supply of the former but a finite stock of the latter. When you are tightly boxed in or cornered—all too often by your own stubborn and fixed adherence to some unconsciously worshipped assumptions—all there is to help you is what you have not yet learned.”
    Jordan B. Peterson, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

  • #4
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #6
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #7
    C.G. Jung
    “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #8
    John Lennon
    “The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
    John Lennon

  • #9
    Rick Riordan
    “Humans see what they want to see.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #10
    Roy T. Bennett
    “The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people’s perception of you is a reflection of them; your response to them is an awareness of you.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #11
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
    Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • #12
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Songs are as sad as the listener.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #13
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #14
    Robertson Davies
    “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
    Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

  • #15
    Voltaire
    “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”
    Voltaire



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