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#1

“some moments are nice, some are
nicer, some are even worth
writing
about.”
― Charles Bukowski, War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984

tags: bukowski, love, moments, nice, poetry, war-all-the-time, writing

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#2

“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond",
"What does?"
"This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

tags: diamonds, life, moments

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#3

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, philosophy

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#4

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#5

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

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#6

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

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#7

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
― Socrates

tags: philosophy

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#8

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder

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#9

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― Socrates

tags: gossip

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#10

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates

tags: independence, self-reliance

1728 likes

#11

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Socrates

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#12

“Know thyself.”
― Socrates

tags: inspirational

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#13

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

tags: contentment, philosophy

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#14

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
― Socrates

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#15

“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
― Socrates

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#16

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

[As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment]”
― Socrates

tags: cosmopolitan, cosmopolitanism, world-citizenship

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#17

“Every action has its pleasures and its price.”
― Socrates

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#18

“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
― Socrates

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#19

“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”
― Socrates

tags: character, rectitude

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