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  • #1
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #2
    Diogenes of Sinope
    “It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”
    Diogenes of Sinope

  • #3
    Diogenes of Sinope
    “It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.”
    Diogenes

  • #4
    Diogenes of Sinope
    “Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.”
    Diogenes of Sinope

  • #5
    Diogenes of Sinope
    “What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.”
    Diogenes

  • #6
    Diogenes of Sinope
    “In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.”
    Diogenes of Sinope

  • #7
    Diogenes of Sinope
    “Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”
    Diogenes of Sinope

  • #8
    Baruch Spinoza
    “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
    Baruch Spinoza

  • #9
    Baruch Spinoza
    “No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”
    Spinoza

  • #10
    Baruch Spinoza
    “If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
    Baruch Spinoza

  • #11
    Baruch Spinoza
    “Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
    Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

  • #12
    Baruch Spinoza
    “We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.”
    Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

  • #13
    Baruch Spinoza
    “Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.”
    Baruch Spinoza

  • #14
    Archimedes
    “Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.”
    Archimedes

  • #15
    Archimedes
    “Dont disturb my circles!”
    Archimedes

  • #16
    Isaac Newton
    “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
    Isaac Newton

  • #17
    Isaac Newton
    “What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
    Isaac Newton

  • #18
    Isaac Newton
    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

  • #19
    Isaac Newton
    “What goes up must come down.”
    Isaac Newton

  • #20
    Isaac Newton
    “Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation”
    Newton

  • #21
    Isaac Newton
    “You have to make the rules, not follow them”
    Sir Isaac Newton

  • #22
    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #23
    Anton Chekhov
    “Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #24
    Anton Chekhov
    “The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

  • #25
    Anton Chekhov
    “What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
    A.P. Chekhov

  • #26
    Anton Chekhov
    “When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #27
    Anton Chekhov
    “Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #28
    Anton Chekhov
    “Man is what he believes.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #29
    Anton Chekhov
    “The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.”
    Chekhov, Anton Chekhov, Anton

  • #30
    Publius Cornelius Tacitus
    “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
    Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome



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