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  • #1
    Cormac McCarthy
    “At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned”
    Cormac McCarthy, Child of God

  • #2
    Jakob Böhme
    “In 'Yes' and 'No' all things consist.”
    Jacob Boehme

  • #3
    Paul Valéry
    “God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly”
    Paul Valéry

  • #4
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.

    - On Religion
    Arthur Schopenhauer, The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion

  • #5
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • #6
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • #7
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • #8
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • #9
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Vol. 1

  • #10
    Criss Jami
    “Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
    Criss Jami

  • #11
    Jean Webster
    “Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.”
    Jean Webster

  • #12
    Isabelle Eberhardt
    “For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.”
    Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

  • #13
    Dr. Seuss
    “Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!
    There are points to be scored. There are games to be won.
    And the magical things you can do with that ball
    will make you the winning-est winner of all.
    Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be,
    with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.

    Except when they don't
    Because, sometimes they won't.

    I'm afraid that some times
    you'll play lonely games too.
    Games you can't win
    'cause you'll play against you.”
    Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

  • #14
    Gene Wolfe
    “People don't want other people to be people.”
    Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw

  • #15
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #16
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #17
    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    Bob Marley

  • #18
    Jay McInerney
    “The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
    Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

  • #19
    Albert Einstein
    “However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #20
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.”
    Niccolò Machiavelli

  • #21
    Cormac McCarthy
    “There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.”
    Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

  • #22
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

  • #23
    Confucius
    “To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
    Confucius, The Analects

  • #24
    Confucius
    “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
    Confucius

  • #25
    Confucius
    “The funniest people are the saddest ones”
    Confucius

  • #26
    Confucius
    “To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”
    Confucius

  • #27
    George Bernard Shaw
    “The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #28
    Pat Conroy
    “Honor is the presence of God in man.”
    Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

  • #29
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “When you consider how great and immediate is the problem of existence, this ambiguous, tormented, fleeting, dream-like existence - so great and so immediate that as soon as you are aware of it, it overshadows and obscures all other problems and aims; and when you then see how men, with a few rare exceptions, have no clear awareness of this problem, indeed seem not to be conscious of it at all, but concern themselves with anything rather than this problem, and live on taking thought only for the day and for the hardly longer span of their own individual future, either expressly refusing to consider this problem or contenting themselves with some system of popular metaphysics..”
    Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World

  • #30
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom; and that boredom is a direct proof that existence is in itself valueless, for boredom is nothing other than the sensation of the emptiness of existence.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms



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