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#1

“According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: psychology

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#2

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war

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#3

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: integrity, morality

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#4

“Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.”
― Fred Rogers, You Are Special: Neighborly Wit And Wisdom From Mister Rogers

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#5

“There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.”
― Fred Rogers, You Are Special: Neighborly Wit And Wisdom From Mister Rogers

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#6

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

tags: demons, happiness, judgement, kronofobi, life, reincarnation, sadness

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#7

“The past remains hidden in clouds of memory.”
― Matsuo Bashō, Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings

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#8

“On the coldest night, we two sleeping together— how comfortable!”
― Matsuo Bashō, Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings

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#9

“Just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

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#10

“The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

tags: critical, philosophy

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#11

“The status of celebrity offers the promise of being showered with ‘all good things’ that capitalism has to offer. The grotesque display of celebrity lives (and deaths) is the contemporary form of the cult of personality; those ‘famous for being famous’ hold out the spectacular promise of the complete erosion of a autonomously lived life in return for an apotheosis as an image.

- From Martin Jenkins' Introduction”
― Martin Jenkins, The Society of the Spectacle

tags: celebrity, spectacle, spectacular-society

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#12

“Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: life-partnerships, love, marriage, relationships

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#13

“Let no man, therefore, lose heart from thinking that he cannot do what others have done before him; for, as I said in my Preface, men are born, and live, and die, always in accordance with the same rules.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius

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#14

“He who mocks the infant's faith
Shall be mock'd in age and death.
He who shall teach the child to doubt
The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

He who respects the infant's faith
Triumphs over hell and death.
The child's toys and the old man's reasons
Are the fruits of the two seasons.

- "Auguries of Innocence”
― William Blake, The Complete Poems

tags: poetry-quotes

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#15

“The best is the enemy of good.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

tags: ambition, best, desires, good, greed, insatiability

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#16

“A promise to love someone forever, then, means, 'As long as I love you I will render unto you the actions of love; if I no longer love you, you will continue to receive the same actions from me, if for other motives.' Thus the illusion remains in the minds of one's fellow men that the love is unchanged and still the same.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms on Love and Hate

tags: love, promise, quote

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#17

“One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has given. One must have strong powers of imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality bound to the quality of the intellect.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms on Love and Hate

tags: intellect, promise, quote

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#18

“Marriage as a long conversation. When entering a marriage, one should ask the question: do you think you will be able to have good conversations with this woman right into old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time in interaction is spent in conversation.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms on Love and Hate

tags: conversation, discussion, marriage

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#19

“Having Come to Freedom, a Corrupt People Can with the Greatest Difficulty Maintain Itself Free”
― Niccolò Machiavelli , The Discourses

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#20

“Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been.”
― neil price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

tags: free-will

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#21

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: adversity, inspirational, life-lessons, problems, trials

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#22

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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#23

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#24

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

2984 likes

#25

“If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#26

“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

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#27

“...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...”
― Plato, The Symposium

tags: love, soulmates

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#28

“Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.”
― Plato, The Symposium

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#29

“He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.”
― Plato, The Symposium

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#30

“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

tags: endurance, friendship, inspirational, philosophy

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