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“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
― C.G. Jung

“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
― Bob Marley

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
― Malcolm X

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Ignorance is a cure for nothing. ”
― W. E. B. Dubois

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all.”
― Yogi Bhajan

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
― Plato, The Republic

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

“There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.”
― Ali Bin Abi Thalib

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

“Don't criticize what you can't understand.”
― Bob Dylan

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
― Epictetus

“Only the educated are free.”
― Epictetus

“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

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche