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“When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Language disguises thought.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes

“One more word about giving instruction as to what the world ought to be. Philosophy in any case always comes on the scene too late to give it. As the thought of the world, it appears only when actuality is already there cut and dried after its process of formation has been completed...

When philosophy paints its grey in grey, then has a shape of life grown old. By philosophy's grey in grey it cannot be rejuvenated but only understood. The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.”
― Hegel

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”
― Goethe

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
― Rosa Luxemburg

“Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.”
― Werner Herzog

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays