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    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    ― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
    tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle
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    Tamora Pierce
    “You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
    "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess
    tags: alanna, amusing, philosophy, tamora-pierce
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
    tags: morality, philosophy
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    Albert Einstein
    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: curiosity, philosophy, wonder
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: communication, inspirational, philosophy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
    tags: atheism, belief, blind, blind-faith, blindness, christian-faith, christian-miracle, critical-thinking, critical-thought, death-of-reason, doubt, doubt-is-sin, eternity, existence, foundation-of-belief, human-nature, intoxication, meaning, meaning-of-life, metaphor, miracle, myth, nature, origin, philosophy, purpose, purpose-of-life, reason, reflection, religious-faith, resurrection, resurrection-of-jesus, sin, sinful, thinking, thoughts, wasted-life
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    Albert Einstein
    “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: einstein, philosophy, science
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    Alan W. Watts
    “You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: buddhism, metaphysical, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.
    To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
    tags: philosophy
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    Woody Allen
    “If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: atheism, metaphysics, philosophy
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    Leon Trotsky
    “The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
    ― Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, liberty, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism, utilitarianism
    619 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
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    Tom Wolfe
    “A cult is a religion with no political power.”
    ― Tom Wolfe
    tags: atheism, philosophy
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    Sun Tzu
    “Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.”
    ― Sun Tzu
    tags: philosophy, thought-provoking, war
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    Lao Tzu
    “Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: philosophy, taoism
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
    tags: philosophy
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    Woody Guthrie
    “Take it easy, but take it.”
    ― Woody Guthrie
    tags: inspiration, philosophy
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    T.S. Eliot
    “We are the hollow men
    We are the stuffed men
    Leaning together
    Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
    Our dried voices, when
    We whisper together
    Are quiet and meaningless
    As wind in dry grass
    Or rats' feet over broken glass
    In our dry cellar
    Shape without form, shade without colour,
    Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

    - The Hollow Men”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Poems: 1909-1925
    tags: philosophy, poetry
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    Baruch Spinoza
    “I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
    ― Baruch Spinoza
    tags: philosophy
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    David Hume
    “Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
    ― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
    tags: errors, philosophy, religion
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
    tags: philosophy
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: friendship, love, philosophy, women
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    Joseph Brodsky
    “Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: cynicism, human, life, philosophy, wisdom
    416 likes

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    George Carlin
    “I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: descartes, humor, philosophy, subjectivity
    513 likes

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    Sophocles
    “One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
    ― Sophocles
    tags: philosophy
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    Wil Zeus
    “Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.”
    ― Wil Zeus, Sun Beyond the Clouds
    tags: forgiveness, happiness, inspirational, knowledge, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom
    430 likes

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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “I am my world.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: philosophy, solipsism
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    Ayn Rand
    “I am, therefore I'll think.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart
    378 likes

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    Ovid
    “Fas est ab hoste doceri.
    One should learn even from one's enemies.”
    ― Ovid, Metamorphoses
    tags: ancient, latin, philosophy
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    “The pianokeys are black and white
    but they sound like a million colors in your mind”
    ― Maria Cristina Mena, The Collected Stories of Maria Cristina Mena
    tags: colors, interpretation, music, philosophy, piano, racism
    368 likes



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