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“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: expectations, perception

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“The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: ambition, artist, confidence, controversy, creativity, criticism, gossip, insanity, libel, negativity, opposition, perception, perseverance, persistence, perspective, positivity, rebellion, ridicule, scrutiny, slander, strength

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“Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside the box do it not to puff themselves up, but to see how small they really are. As a contented fish in its fish tank appears to have a small, boring existence to us, imagine a larger, more perceptive kingdom (even by scientific taxonomy) to whom our contented existences may appear to be small and boring. This is where true creativity and massive perceptive abilities spawn a sense of intellectual humility; the kind which God adores.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: agnosticism, apologetics, arrogance, artist, atheism, god, humility, originality, perception, perspective, pride, science, skepticism, taxonomy, theism, think-outside-the-box, thought

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#4

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”
― Oscar Wilde

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#5

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor

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“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose

tags: curiosity, epigram, tabloid-journalism, wisdom

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“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

tags: genius, humour, oscar-wilde

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#8

“She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. ”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: romance

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#9

“Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: consistency

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#10

“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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#11

“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#12

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#13

“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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#14

“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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#15

“Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

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#16

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: perception, philosophy, scientific-process, truth

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#17

“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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#18

“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#19

“When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Фридрих Ницше

tags: abyss, nietzsche

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#20

“I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

tags: ethics, nietzsche

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#21

“Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#22

“They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#23

“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#24

“The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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#25

“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#26

“It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.”
― Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelms

tags: life-lessons, nietzsche, noble, right, wrong

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#27

“And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

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#29

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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#30

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: ignorance

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