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#1

“The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?"

"Wouldn't I know which one I was?"

"Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

tags: good-and-evil, lies, perception, personality, self-deception, truth, truth-and-lies, villains

428 likes

#2

“Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

tags: good-and-evil, inspirational

107 likes

#3

“And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

tags: good-and-evil, philosophy, truth

144 likes

#4

“The vilest of men and the wickedest of women likewise may do good from time to time, for love and compassion and pity may be found in even the blackest of hearts.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

tags: black-heart, compassion, evil, good, heart, love, vile, wicked

39 likes

#5

“We are as the gods made us. Strong and weak, good and bad, cruel and kind, heroic and selfish. Know that if you would rule over the kingdom of men.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

24 likes

#6

“When I say it doesn't hurt me, that means I can bear it.”
― Yoshihiro Togashi

tags: killua-zoldyck

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#7

“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: age, empowerment, equality, experience, freedom, gender, independence, men, reason, self-determination, submission, superiority, women, women-s-rights

3375 likes

#8

“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”
― Albert Camus

tags: philosophy-of-life

410 likes

#9

“All I know is that I do not know anything”
― Socrates

tags: philosophy-of-life

127 likes

#10

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

tags: affection, alone, beauty, camaraderie, caring, caring-for-others, closeness, companionship, compassion, connectedness, connection, disconnection, empathy, estrangement, fellowship, friendship, friendship-quotes, hug, hugs, intimacy, isolation, kindness, kindred-spirits, loneliness, love, love-at-first-sight, love-quotes, lovers, loving, loving-someone, mirror, mutuality, partnership, reciprocal, reciprocity, reflected-in-you, relationship, relationship-quotes, relationships, romance, self-belief, self-esteem, self-hatred, self-realization, self-worth, self-worthiness, soul-mate, soulmates, togetherness, touch, twin-flames

1767 likes

#11

“I am who I am; no more, no less.”
― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

tags: inspirational, self-awareness, self-realization

446 likes

#12

“The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty... not to reassure him, but to upset him.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

tags: meaning, meaning-making, philosophy, question-everything, questioning, reassurance, uncertainty, upset

48 likes

#13

“I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human characteristics. It's something that I really like about myself. [...] I want to understand stuff! I want to understand people! Following my curiosity so frequently leads me to better life decisions and better business decisions but also - just feeling better! You're never going to feel bad about your whole life if you loved people and you were curious. I mean, that's kind of all I want!”
― Hank Green

tags: ask-questions, asking, be-curious, curiosity, curiosity-quotes, curiosity-wisdom, curious, curious-mind, curious-people, curiously, dftba, expand, explore, grow, hankgreen, learn, learn-by-doing, learning, learning-process, life, nerdfighter, nerdfighteria, question-everything, question-things, questioning-mind, questions-in-life, vlogbrothers

30 likes

#14

“Avoid blind compliance. Ask questions.”
― Mimi Ikonn

tags: ask-questions, critical-thinking, independent-thinking, question, question-everything, think-before-you-act, think-for-yourself

2 likes

#15

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: curious-mind, question-everything

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#16

“Questions open a space in your mind that allow better answers to breathe.”
― Richie Norton

tags: answers, question, question-everything, questioning-mind, questions, questions-and-answers, questions-in-life, questions-quotes

8 likes

#17

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

tags: belief, bias, knowledge, perception, philosophy, reality

1052 likes

#18

“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: bias, bickering, disagreement, falacy, fool, information, intelligence, politics, religion, science, stupidity, wisdom

325 likes

#19

“It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: attention, bias, compassion, comprehension, discernment, fear, judgmentality, listening, love, prejudice, understanding

240 likes

#20

“We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.”
― Frank A. Clark

tags: bias, comfort, growth, learning

109 likes

#21

“BLACK AND WHITE

I was born into
A religion of Light,
But with so many other
Religions and
Philosophies,
How do I know which
ONE
Is right?

Is it not
My birthright
To seek out the light?
To find Truth
After surveying all the proof,
Am I supposed
To love
Or fight?
And why do all those who
Try to guide me,
Always start by dividing
And multiplying me –
From what they consider
Wrong or right?
I thought,
There were no walls
For whoever beams truth and light.
And how can one speak on Light's behalf,
lf all they do
Is act black,
But talk WHITE?”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: actions, bad, bad-deeds, barriers, bias, biased, birth, birthright, black, born, contradict, contradiction, dark, darkness, divide, dividing, faith, fight, find-truth, guide, hate, hypocrisy, hypocrites, lead, leader, light, love, multiply, philosophies, philosophy, philosophy-of-religion, proof, religion, religions, religious, religious-contradiction, research, skepticism-of-religion, study, unity, universal, walls, white, wisdom

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#22

“Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.”
― J. Krishnamurti

tags: autonomy, imitation, knowledge

289 likes

#23

“The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
― Thomas Stephen Szasz

tags: autonomy, independence, self-reliance

281 likes

#24

“There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!”
― Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible

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#25

“Satanism condones any type of sexual activity which properly satisfies your individual desires- be it heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or even asexual, if you choose. Satanism also sanctions any fetish or deviation which will enhance your sex-life, so long as it involves no one who does not wish to be involved.”
― Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible

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#26

“Satan has certainly been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years. The false doctrine of Hell and the Devil has allowed the Protestant and Catholic Churches to flourish far too long. Without a devil to point their fingers at, religionists of the right hand path would have nothing with which to threaten their followers. "Satan leads you to temptation"; "Satan is the prince of evil"; "Satan is vicious, cruel, brutal," they warn. "If you give in to the temptations of the devil, you will surely suffer eternal damnation and roast in Hell."
The semantic meaning of Satan is the "adversary" or "opposition" or the "accuser." The very word "devil" comes from the Indian devi which means "god." Satan represents opposition to all religions which serve to frustrate and condemn man for his natural instincts. He has been given an evil role simply because he represents the carnal, earthly, and mundane aspects of life.”
― Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible

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#27

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

13144 likes

#28

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: sin

10868 likes

#29

“They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'd think that lying would leave something of a sour taste. So my theory is that when the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell.”
― Mike Carey

156 likes

#30

“I manage because I have to. Because I've no other way out. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different, I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

198 likes

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