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#1

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

tags: philosophy

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#2

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

tags: life, living, philosophy, women

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#3

“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

tags: addiction, life-lessons, philosophy, thinking, thoughts

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#4

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
― Socrates

tags: philosophy

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#5

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle

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#6

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: philosophy, truth

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#7

“I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.”
― Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief

tags: humour, philosophy, religion, soul

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#8

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
― Aristotle

tags: art, philosophy

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#9

“The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

tags: philosophy

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#10

“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: life, mental-illness, philosophy

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#11

“A cult is a religion with no political power.”
― Tom Wolfe

tags: atheism, philosophy

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#12

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
― Epicurus

tags: awful, death, inspirational, peace, philosophy, serenity, wisdom

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#13

“The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.”
― Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

tags: intimacy, life-lessons, love, peace, peacekeeping, philosophy, poetry, relationships, spirituality, trust, war

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#14

“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.”
― Spinoza

tags: philosophy

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#15

“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

tags: philosophy

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#16

“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

tags: humor, philosophy, terry-pratchett, wintersmith

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#17

“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: philosophy

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#18

“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
― Slavoj Žižek

tags: love, philosophy

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#19

“I am my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy, solipsism

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#20

“I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.”
― George Carlin

tags: descartes, humor, philosophy, subjectivity

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#21

“Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.”
― Wil Zeus, Sun Beyond the Clouds

tags: forgiveness, happiness, inspirational, knowledge, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom

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#22

“What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.”
― Alice Bag, Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

tags: life, life-lessons, mistakes, philosophy

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#23

“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Confessions

tags: difficulty, noble, philosophy, poverty

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#24

“All men by nature desire to know.”
― Aristotle, Metaphysics

tags: knowledge, philosophy

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#25

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates

tags: independence, self-reliance

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#26

“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.”
― Socrates

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#27

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Socrates

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#28

“Know thyself.”
― Socrates

tags: inspirational

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#29

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
― Socrates

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#30

“Every action has its pleasures and its price.”
― Socrates

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