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    Heraclitus
    “All are one”
    ― Heraclitus
    tags: philosophy
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    Anne Frank
    “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: writing
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    Terence
    “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
    I am human, and think nothing human alien to me.”
    ― Terence
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    Giordano Bruno
    “They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.”
    ― Giordano Bruno
    tags: argument, dispute, opinion, truth
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    Giordano Bruno
    “Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
    ― Giordano Bruno
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    Giordano Bruno
    “The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.”
    ― Giordano Bruno
    tags: divine, ego, grace
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  • #7
    “To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”
    ― Geoffrey Wolff
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    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    Neel Burton
    “If you want to be heard, become a dentist.”
    ― Neel Burton
    tags: advice-for-life, communication-skills, dentistry, humour, joke, listening-skills, wit
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: courage, inspirational, strength
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is unworthy of great spirits to spread abroad the agitation they feel”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ
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    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “You must learn not what people round you consider good or bad, but to act in life as your conscience bids you. An untrammelled conscience will always know more than all the books and teachers put together.”
    ― G.I. Gurdjieff, Meetings With Remarkable Men
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: magic, science
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    William Blake
    “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
    ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
    tags: infinity, perception
    1910 likes

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    Friedrich Hölderlin
    “For the mindful god does detest untimely growth.”
    ― Friedrich Hölderlin
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  • #16
    George Orwell
    “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: intellectualism
    435 likes

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  • #17
    Plotinus
    “I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.”
    ― Plotinus
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    Robert Kanigel
    “They must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have the imagination to invent them.”
    ― Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
    15 likes

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  • #19
    Athanasius Kircher
    “Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.”
    ― Athanasius Kircher
    tags: hubris, knowledge
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #21
    Georges Canguilhem
    “To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.”
    ― Georges Canguilhem, Ideology and Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences
    tags: error, ideology, science
    30 likes

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    Dominique Manotti
    “–Ξέρεις καλά ότι δεν με ενδιαφέρουν αυτές οι πολιτικές ιστορίες.
    –Το ξέρω. Αλλά αυτό δεν σημαίνει ότι η πολιτική, από τη μεριά της, δεν ενδιαφέρεται για σένα.”
    ― Dominique Manotti, Escape
    tags: politics
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    Otto Weininger
    “The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, … deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.”
    ― Otto Weininger, Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles
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    Iris Murdoch
    “True politics is simply the drying of tears and the endless fight for freedom. Without freedom there is no art and no truth. I revere great artists and the men who say no to tyrants.”
    ― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
    tags: art, fighting-for-freedom, freedom-of-speech, iris-murdoch, politics, rebellion, resistance, the-black-prince, truth
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  • #25
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Léon Bloy
    “The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.”
    ― Léon Bloy
    tags: failure, goal, saint, triumph
    43 likes

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    Julius Bahnsen
    “Man is a self-conscious nothing.”
    ― Julius Bahnsen
    tags: misanthropy, self-consciousness
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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  • #29
    Katelis Viglas
    “Ιησούς Χριστός: Μία παράξενη ελπίδα για τον κόσμο - Jesus Christ: A Strange Hope for the World”
    ― Katelis Viglas, Μια παράξενη ελπίδα για τον κόσμο: Έρευνα στο βίο του Ιησού Χριστού
    tags: hope-quotes, jesus
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