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  • #1
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #2
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #3
    George Orwell
    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #4
    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #5
    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    George Orwell, Animal Farm

  • #6
    George Orwell
    “Big Brother is Watching You.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #7
    George Orwell
    “It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #8
    George Orwell
    “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #9
    George Orwell
    “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
    George Orwell

  • #10
    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    George Orwell

  • #11
    Benjamin Franklin
    “There was never a bad peace or a good war.”
    Ben Franklin

  • #12
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”
    Ben Franklin

  • #13
    Benjamin Franklin
    “When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.”
    Ben Franklin

  • #14
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    Aristotle

  • #15
    Aristotle
    “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
    Aristotle

  • #16
    “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
    William Durant

  • #17
    Aristotle
    “Hope is a waking dream.”
    Aristotle

  • #18
    Aristotle
    “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
    Aristotle

  • #19
    Aristotle
    “Wit is educated insolence.”
    Aristotle

  • #20
    Aristotle
    “Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
    Aristotle

  • #21
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #22
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

  • #23
    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    Socrates

  • #24
    Socrates
    “Know thyself.”
    Socrates

  • #25
    Socrates
    “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
    Socrates

  • #26
    Socrates
    “To find yourself, think for yourself.”
    Socrates

  • #27
    Socrates
    “Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
    Socrates

  • #28
    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    Socrates

  • #29
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #30
    Will Durant
    “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
    Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers



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