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    Jostein Gaarder
    “It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
    tags: curiosity
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    Jostein Gaarder
    “A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and about the world. And now comes the important part: it troubled him that he knew so little.”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
    tags: philosophy
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    Annie Dillard
    “Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?”
    ― Annie Dillard
    tags: atheism, god, religion
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”
    ― Nietzsche
    tags: convictions, existentialism, lies, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: most-famous-novella
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: perception
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    Albert Einstein
    “A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: crazy, question, thought-provoking
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: atheism, belief, scepticism, skepticism
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Emily Dickinson
    “A Word is Dead

    A word is dead
    When it is said,
    Some say.

    I say it just
    Begins to live
    That day.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: poetry, words
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  • #14
    “To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.”
    ― Polish Proverb
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    Brian Jacques
    “Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
    ― Brian Jacques, Taggerung
    tags: crying, emotion, emotions, flowers, fruit, growing, nature, sadness, sunlight, tears, trees, water
    2328 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is that of knowing whether two and two do make four.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: existentialism
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity no to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
    tags: existentialism, feminism
    41 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
    13160 likes

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    John Lennon
    “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: happiness
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    Hannah Arendt
    “The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.”
    ― Hannah Arendt
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Tears are words that need to be written.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: inspirational, sadness, writing
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: depression, sadness
    945 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: les-miserables-books
    718 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being."

    Jean Valjean about Cossette”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: love
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    Victor Hugo
    “Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose
    que deja ton coeur avait repondu.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
    tags: love
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    Ludwig Feuerbach
    “I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”
    ― Ludwig Feuerbach, Essence of Christianity
    tags: angel, character, devil, falsehood, inspirational, truth
    110 likes

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    Ludwig Feuerbach
    “If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”
    ― Ludwig Feuerbach, Essence of Christianity
    tags: atheism, atheistic, essence, human-nature, inspirational, intention, irreligious, truth
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.' Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However, suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Omar and the Gospel instead of the Koran. The library would still have been burned, and that might well have been the finest moment in the life of this illustrious pontiff.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and Polemics
    tags: absurdity, alexandria, caliph, caliph-omar, gospel, gregory-the-great, intolerance, islam, koran, library, library-of-alexandria, pontiff, quran, science-vs-religion
    141 likes



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