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#1

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

tags: loneliness, solitude

4528 likes

#2

“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

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#3

“All societies end up wearing masks.”
― Jean Baudrillard, America

100 likes

#4

“Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?”
― Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics

tags: metaphysics, philosophy

183 likes

#5

“Das Nichts nichtet”
― Martin Heidegger

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#6

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
― William James

tags: actions, attributed, change

597 likes

#7

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
― William James

tags: attributed, honesty, integrity, philosophy, wisdom

712 likes

#8

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
― William James

tags: wisdom

963 likes

#9

“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. ”
― Martin Heidegger

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#10

“Everyone is the other and no one is himself.”
― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

tags: being-and-time, heidegger, philosophy

261 likes

#11

“he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors”
― Martin Heidegger

122 likes

#12

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― Andre Gide

tags: courage, daring, discovery, exploration, inspirational

1375 likes

#13

“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”
― Andre Gide

tags: life

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#14

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

62177 likes

#15

“Thus "phenomenology" means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα -- to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself.”
― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

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#16

“To make of "the truth" a goddess amounts to turning the mere notion of something, namely the concept of the essence of truth, into a "personality.”
― Martin Heidegger, Parmenides

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#17

“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

tags: awareness, classic-quotes, essence, existence, humanity, mankind, self-awareness, self-definition

66 likes

#18

“truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.”
― Martin Heidegger

tags: truth

100 likes

#19

“The dictionary contains no metaphors.”
― Paul Ricoeur

9 likes

#20

“Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.”
― Martin Heidegger

493 likes

#21

“If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.”
― Charles-Louis de Secondat, de la Brède et de Montesquieu

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#22

“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. (Cambridge University Press (September 29, 1989)”
― Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws

tags: criminal-justice, criminal-justice-system, injustice

219 likes

#23

“Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.”
― Charles-Louis De Secondat Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws

tags: law, society

116 likes

#24

“There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.”
― Heidegger

46 likes

#25

“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

549 likes

#26

“A thought will color a world for us.”
― Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie

15 likes

#27

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: inspirational

792 likes

#28

“How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.”
― Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie

53 likes

#29

“Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.”
― Ivan Turgenev

tags: life, nature

79 likes

#30

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

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