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  • #1
    Roberto Bolaño
    “The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less.”
    Roberto Bolaño, 2666

  • #2
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #3
    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

  • #4
    Isaac Newton
    “Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
    Isaac Newton

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    Bart D. Ehrman
    “The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.”
    Bart D. Ehrman, Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are

  • #9
    Douglas Adams
    “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #10
    Douglas Adams
    “42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.”
    Douglas Adams

  • #11
    Leonard Susskind
    “There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.”
    Leonard Susskind, The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

  • #12
    Virgil
    “forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
    and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”
    Virgil, Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6

  • #13
    Seneca
    “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #14
    Thomas à Kempis
    “In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

    (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)
    Thomas a Kempis

  • #15
    Isaac Newton
    “A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.”
    Sir Isaac Newton

  • #16
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #17
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “And all I loved, I loved alone.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #18
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #19
    Paul Valéry
    “Politeness is organized indifference.”
    Paul Valéry

  • #20
    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #21
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Theirs not to reason why,
    Theirs but to do and die”
    Lord Tennyson Alfred

  • #22
    Richard Dawkins
    “I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
    Richard Dawkins

  • #23
    Brian Cox
    “We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”
    Brian Cox

  • #24
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
    Niccolo Machiavelli

  • #25
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.”
    Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

  • #26
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.”
    Niccolò Machiavelli

  • #27
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
    Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

  • #28
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
    Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

  • #29
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.”
    Niccolo Machiavelli

  • #30
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
    Niccolo Machiavelli



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