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#1

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

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

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#2

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

tags: cynicism, philosophy

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#3

“It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.”
― Diogenes

tags: wisdom

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#4

“Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

tags: cynicism, philosophy

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#5

“What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.”
― Diogenes

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#6

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

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#7

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

tags: feelings, offend, offense, philosopher, philosophers, philosophy

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#8

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

tags: education, free-thought, philosophy

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#9

“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”
― Spinoza

tags: disputes

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#10

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

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#11

“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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#12

“We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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#13

“Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.”
― Baruch Spinoza

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#14

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

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#15

“Dont disturb my circles!”
― Archimedes

tags: funny-last-words

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#16

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

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#17

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

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#18

“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

tags: principia, science

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#19

“What goes up must come down.”
― Isaac Newton

tags: apple, newton, science

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#20

“Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation”
― Newton

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#21

“You have to make the rules, not follow them”
― Sir Isaac Newton

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#22

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

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

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#23

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

tags: living

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#24

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

tags: art, artists

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#25

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

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#26

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

tags: astringent, satire

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#27

“Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: anton-chekhov, books, education, learning, wisdom

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#28

“Man is what he believes.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: belief

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#29

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

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#30

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

tags: commonwealth, corruption, government, law

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