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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All I need is a sheet of paper
    and something to write with, and then
    I can turn the world upside down.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: writing
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: self-deception
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
    tags: insanity, madness, nationalism, philosophy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I am one thing, my writings are another.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: philosophy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A thought comes when it will, not when I will.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: thought
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.”
    ― Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelms
    tags: life-lessons, nietzsche, noble, right, wrong
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Plato was a bore.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: philosophy
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    “Your children are not your children.
    They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
    They come through you but not from you,
    And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
    You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
    For they have their own thoughts.
    You may house their bodies but not their souls,
    For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
    Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: inspirational-quotes, poetry-quotes
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: time, timelessness, today, tomorrow, yesterday
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: wisdom
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “It never got weird enough for me.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: individuality, uniqueness
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: beliefs, brainwashed, brainwashing, compatibility, conclusions, conform, conformist, conformity, critical-thinking, herd-mentality, independent-thinking, independent-thought, indoctrination, nonconformity, puppet, sheep, sheep-mentality
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    Criss Jami
    “Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
    ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: art, artist, artistic, contemplating, dreams, experience, fantasy, fun, imagination, life, perception, perspective, poetry, reading, reality, solitude, songwriting, thinking, thoughts, universe, vicarious, writing
    1262 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.”
    ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
    tags: absurd, absurdity, art, artist, ecstasy, experiment, experimentation, insane, insanity, intellectual, intellectualism, intelligence, madness, mind, out-of-my-mind, outrageous, philosophy, theory, thinking, thought, too-much
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, artist, creativity-work
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    Marcel Duchamp
    “I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
    ― Marcel Duchamp
    tags: art, artist, dadaism, surrealism
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    Anthony Kiedis
    “Every true artist is at war with the world.”
    ― Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
    tags: art, artist, war
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    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Diogenes of Sinope
    “Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”
    ― Diogenes of Sinope
    tags: feelings, offend, offense, philosopher, philosophers, philosophy
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    Diogenes of Sinope
    “It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”
    ― Diogenes of Sinope
    tags: cynicism, philosophy
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    Diogenes of Sinope
    “A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. "If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn't have to live on lentils."

    Diogenes replied, "But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus.”
    ― Diogenes of Sinope
    tags: diogenes, greece, philosopher, philosophy
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: adage, adages, afraid, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, avoid, axiom, axioms, deep, depress, depressed, depressing, depression, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, fear, fearful, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, impression, in-public, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, philosopher, philosophy, private, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, public, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, seem, south-africa, south-african, stoic, stoicism, stoics, suicidal, suicide, think, thinker, thinkers, thinking, thought-provoking, thoughtful
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    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night,
    Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    ― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
    tags: death-and-dying, inspirational, philosophy, poetry
    1674 likes

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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
    6774 likes



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