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#1

“It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.”
― B.F. Skinner, Walden Two

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#2

“Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.”
― Martin Heidegger

tags: philosophy, reason, science

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#3

“Freedom lies in being bold.”
― Robert Frost

tags: boldness, courage, freedom

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#4

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: desire, life, lost, paradox, tragedy

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#5

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: life, love

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#6

“Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.”
― Mae West

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#7

“The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.”
― Albert Ellis

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#8

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

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#9

“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.”
― Albert Camus

tags: absurdity, happiness

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#10

“It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.”
― Albert Camus

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#11

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

[The Minotaur]”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: introspection, retreat, solitude

1926 likes

#12

“It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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#13

“Nothing in life is worth,
turning your back on,
if you love it.”
― Albert Camus

tags: life, love

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#14

“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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#15

“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

tags: altruism, inspirational, science

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#16

“Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit and Three Other Plays

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#17

“Her smiles, her mimicries, all the words she uttered were addressed to herself through him.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

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#18

“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: heartache, loss, love

3086 likes

#19

“Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

tags: observation

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#20

“Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes

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#21

“The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.”
― Steven Pinker

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#22

“Everyone has a theory of human nature. Everyone has to anticipate the behavior of others, and that means we all need theories about what makes people tick.”
― Steven Pinker

tags: life

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#23

“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: inspirational

744 likes

#24

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

tags: biases, focus, focusing-illusion, heuristics, importance, priorities, thinking

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#25

“The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.”
― Ayn Rand

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#26

“If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.”
― Daniel C. Dennett, Freedom Evolves

tags: consciousness, free-will, unconscious

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#27

“What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: faithfulness, justice, kindness

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#28

“There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions. … It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory.”
― Karl R. Popper

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#29

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: humbert-humbert, love

6113 likes

#30

“The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.”
― Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works

tags: brain, materialism, soul

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