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  • #1
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • #2
    W.B. Yeats
    “We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
    Yeats, William Butler

  • #3
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “The best lies about me are the ones I told.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #4
    Robert Anton Wilson
    “belief is the death of intelligence.”
    Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins

  • #5
    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

  • #6
    George Carlin
    “Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

    But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”
    George Carlin

  • #7
    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    Voltaire

  • #8
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #9
    Ziad K. Abdelnour
    “An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define...or destroy you.”
    Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

  • #10
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #11
    Joseph Conrad
    “No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don’t like work – no man does – but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
    Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

  • #12
    “When you're a kid, they tell you it's all... grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.”
    Elton Pope

  • #13
    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #14
    Philip K. Dick
    “Ruth said, "Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a store. That's just desire. You want to have it around, take it home and set it up somewhere in the apartment like a lamp. Love is"-she paused, reflecting-"like a father saving his children from a burning house, getting them out and dying himself. When you love you cease to live for yourself; you live for another person.”
    Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

  • #15
    Carl Sagan
    “we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #16
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #17
    Anton Chekhov
    “we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.”
    Anton Chekhov, Ivanov

  • #18
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large-headed Homo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially pea-brained dinosaurs.”
    Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

  • #19
    George Santayana
    “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”
    George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One

  • #20
    Ralph Ellison
    “I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #21
    Joseph Conrad
    “It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.”
    Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

  • #22
    George Orwell
    “For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #23
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #24
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #25
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • #26
    Mark Manson
    “We are defined by what we choose to reject. And if we reject nothing we essentially have no identity at all”
    Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

  • #27
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #28
    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

  • #29
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    “Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.

    (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)

    [Said on his deathbed]”
    Ludwig van Beethoven

  • #30
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre



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