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  • #1
    Richard P. Feynman
    “Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science, sex
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    Soe Hok Gie
    “Lebih baik diasingkan daripada menyerah pada kemunafikan”
    ― Soe Hok Gie
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    Goenawan Mohamad
    “Kita tak jadi bijaksana, bersih hati dan bahagia karena membaca buku petunjuk yang judulnya bermula dengan "How to"...Kita harus terjun kadang hanyut, kadang berenang dalam pengalaman. Kita harus berada dalam perbuatan, dalam merenung dan merasakan dalam laku. Ujian dan hasil ditentukan di sana.”
    ― Goenawan Mohamad, Catatan Pinggir 1
    tags: hati, pengalaman, perbuatan
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  • #4
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: femininity, liars, manipulation, men-and-women, narcissism, narcissists, politicians, politics, preachers, sociopathology, sociopaths, women
    288 likes

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    Graham Greene
    “From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.”
    ― Graham Greene, The Quiet American
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    Graham Greene
    “I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.”
    ― Graham Greene, The Quiet American
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    Graham Greene
    “Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?”
    ― Graham Greene, The Quiet American
    tags: philosophy, pragmatism
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  • #8
    Graham Greene
    “People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations”
    ― Graham Greene
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  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational-love, misattributed
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  • #10
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization
    4363 likes

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  • #11
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Knock, And He'll open the door
    Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
    Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
    Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
    ― Jalal Ad-Din Rumi
    tags: islam, religion, spirituality
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  • #12
    Montesquieu
    “I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.”
    ― Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu
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  • #13
    Montesquieu
    “If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman...because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.”
    ― Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu
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  • #14
    Boris Pasternak
    “I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
    ― Boris Pasternak
    tags: life
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    Boris Pasternak
    “A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. It's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.”
    ― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
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    Boris Pasternak
    “I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish."
    - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago”
    ― Boris Pasternak
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  • #17
    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
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  • #18
    Zig Ziglar
    “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
    ― Zig Ziglar
    tags: attention, direction, focus, inspirational, motivational
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  • #19
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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  • #20
    Boethius
    “Nunc fluens facit tempus,
    nunc stans facit aeternitatum.

    (The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)”
    ― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
    tags: inspirational
    86 likes

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  • #21
    Alexandre Dumas
    “What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?"

    "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: inspirational-attitude
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  • #22
    Michel de Montaigne
    “I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: curiosity, greed, insight, understanding
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  • #23
    Michel de Montaigne
    “Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy?

    How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: credulity, fables, superstition
    191 likes

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  • #24
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
    tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement
    4382 likes

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  • #25
    David Foster Wallace
    “You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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  • #26
    Boris Pasternak
    “It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can´t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality.”
    ― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
    tags: humanity, personality
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  • #27
    Boris Pasternak
    “How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?”
    ― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
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  • #28
    Goenawan Mohamad
    “Kemampuan membaca itu sebuah rahmat. Kegemaran membaca; sebuah kebahagiaan.”
    ― Goenawan Mohamad
    tags: inspirational
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  • #29
    Goenawan Mohamad
    “Di sekolah, anak-anak belajar bahasa Indonesia, tetapi mereka tak pernah diajar berpidato, berdebat, menulis puisi tentang alam ataupun reportase tentang kehidupan. Mereka cuma disuruh menghafal : menghafal apa itu bunyi diftong, menghafal definisi tata bahasa, menghafal nama-nama penyair yang sajaknya tak pernah mereka baca.”
    ― Goenawan Mohamad, CATATAN PINGGIR 3
    tags: bahasa, menghafal
    76 likes



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