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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Baruch Spinoza
    “I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
    ― Baruch Spinoza
    tags: philosophy
    464 likes

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    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
    tags: identity, opinions
    11952 likes

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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: language, perception, power-of-words
    1686 likes

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    عزمي بشارة
    “كل هوية هي هوية مصنوعة ومتشكلة وهي ماهوية في مرحلة معينة قبل أن تتغير ويعاد تشكيلها”
    ― عزمي بشارة, أن تكون عربيًا في أيامنا
    tags: الهوية
    17 likes

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  • #6
    Stephen W. Hawking
    “Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    2160 likes

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  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
    ― Albert Camus
    701 likes

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  • #8
    Baruch Spinoza
    “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
    ― Baruch Spinoza
    tags: education, free-thought, philosophy
    912 likes

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  • #9
    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
    5443 likes

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    Daniel J. Boorstin
    “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
    ― Daniel J. Boorstin
    tags: misattributed-stephen-hawking
    3227 likes

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    Bertrand Russell
    “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: paraphrased, philosophy
    1365 likes

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  • #12
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    153082 likes

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  • #13
    Carl Sagan
    “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: evidence, faith, science, skepticism
    1524 likes

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  • #14
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
    74811 likes

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  • #15
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There are no facts, only interpretations.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    5132 likes

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  • #16
    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
    4651 likes

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  • #17
    Voltaire
    “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
    ― Voltaire
    2797 likes

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  • #18
    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    ― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: apothegm, common-sense
    1867 likes

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  • #19
    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism
    3225 likes

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  • #20
    Voltaire
    “Dare to think for yourself.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: freedom-of-thought
    1157 likes

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  • #21
    Voltaire
    “Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.”
    ― Voltaire, The Works: Voltaire
    tags: faith, reason
    694 likes

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  • #22
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
    9116 likes

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    عدنان إبراهيم
    “إذا أردنا أن تسلَم لنا ثوراتنا السياسية علينا أن ندعمها وأن نُعزّزها بثورات فكرية علمية ثقافية، وإلا سنضيع وسوف نُعيد إنتاج الديكتاتوريات بخمسين لافتة وخمسين اسمًا جديدًا”
    ― عدنان إبراهيم
    48 likes

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    Bertrand Russell
    “مشكلة العالم أن الأغبياء والمتشددين واثقون بأنفسهم أشد الثقة دائما، أما الحكماء فتملأهم الشكوك”
    ― برتراند راسل
    132 likes

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    Daniel C. Dennett
    “There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.
    —Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995”
    ― Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
    tags: philosophy, science
    73 likes

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  • #26
    Matt Groening
    “I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
    ― Matt Groening
    tags: family, humor, language, satire, simpsons, social-commentary
    2232 likes

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  • #27
    Voltaire
    “If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
    361 likes

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  • #28
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    5314 likes



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