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

“I am, therefore I'll think.”
― Ayn Rand

“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
― Joseph Brodsky

“What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.”
― Alice Bag, Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.”
― Virginia Satir

“I am my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
― René Descartes

“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”
― Blaise Pascal

“There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“...reality is always plural and mutable.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger - Volume I: Final Secret of the Illuminati

“The only thing standing between you and your dreams is ... reluctance.”
― Carroll Bryant

“Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings”
― Arthur Rubinstein

“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I strive for perfection - I settle for satisfaction”
― Carroll Bryant

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

“My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.”
― Noah BenShea, Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom For a Complicated World

“Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.”
― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, 'atheism' is a term that should not even exist. No one needs to identify himself as a 'non-astrologer' or a 'non-alchemist.' We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.”
― Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
― Lao Tzu

“I’ve always hated the “Who are you?" question. This is a philosophical inquiry. Answering that question is why we’re on earth. You can’t answer it in thirty seconds or in an elevator.”
― Sandy Nathan, Numenon

“He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.”
― Epicurus

“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”
― Ayn Rand

“You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray