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#1

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
― Franz Kafka

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#2

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

1320 likes

#3

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom

5512 likes

#4

“Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир

tags: confidence

369 likes

#5

“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: endurance, pacing, war-and-peace

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#6

“Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#7

“You can achieve anything, but not everything.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: clarity, clarity-of-thought, expert, expertise, focus, jack-of-all-trades, one-thing-at-a-time, overconfidence, priorities, vision

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#8

“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the 'anticipation of Nature,' that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with.”
― Thomas Henry Huxley, Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century, The

tags: advance, anticipation, fact, history, hypothesis, invention, nature, science, verifiable

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#9

“Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

tags: fact

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#10

“If the Romans could have fortified their cities the way the human brain fortifies itself, we’d still be wearing togas. The mind is an amazing piece of biomachinery, really. A serious threat presents itself at the gate and up fly the walls, standing firm in the face of earth-shaking revelations, ideological bullets, and plain old logic.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Omens

tags: brain, fact, reflection, shield

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#11

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: writing

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#12

“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka

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#13

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
― Franz Kafka

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#14

“Paths are made by walking”
― Franz Kafka

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#15

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: books

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#16

“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: introspection, writing

1009 likes

#17

“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
― Franz Kafka

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#18

“I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.”
― Kafka, Franz

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#19

“Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.”
― Franz Kafka

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#20

“Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.”
― Franz Kafka

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#21

“First impressions are always unreliable.”
― Franz Kafka

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#22

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― Homer, The Iliad

tags: heart, homer, the-iliad

917 likes

#23

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

tags: 11-379, sleep

664 likes

#24

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”
― Homer, The Odyssey

591 likes

#25

“Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”
― Homer, Iliad

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#26

“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.”
― Homer

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#27

“How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”
― Homer

tags: wisdom

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#28

“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

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#29

“Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

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#30

“If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.”
― Homer (Odyssey)

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