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#1

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

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#2

“Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

tags: cthulhu, horror, lovecraft, mythos

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#3

“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.”
― Blaise Pascal

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#4

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: forget, memory, mnemonic-help

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#5

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
― George Carlin

tags: humor

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#6

“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
― George Carlin

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#7

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#8

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

tags: paradox

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#9

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

tags: epigram, paradox, truth, wisdom

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#10

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: atheism, organized-religion, paradox, religion

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#11

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, attributed-no-source, difference, paradox, significance

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#12

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

tags: counselling, paradox, self-awareness, self-improvement

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#13

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: fear, paradox, suffer, suffering

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#14

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#15

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology

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#16

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: music, philosophy, progress

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#17

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy

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#18

“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

tags: atheism, philosophy

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#19

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#20

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

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#21

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

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

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#22

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom

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#23

“There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

tags: poem

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#24

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
― Bill Hicks

tags: humour, philosophy

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#25

“If I had five million pounds I'd start a radio station because something needs to be done. It would be nice to turn on the radio and hear something that didn't make you feel like smashing up the kitchen and strangling the cat.”
― Joe Strummer

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#26

“Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed”
― Joe Strummer

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