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“It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

[Can You Believe in God and Evolution? Time Magazine, August 7, 2005]”
― Steven Pinker

tags: design, evidence, intuition, natural, science, skepticism, superstition

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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#3

“Everything not forbidden is compulsory”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

tags: absurd, government, humor, totalitarianism

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#4

“Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.”
― Morris Kline

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#5

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
― William James

tags: action, happiness, motivational, work

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#6

“Such terminological difficulties remind us that history, despite its popular identification with the past, is at all times most relevant to the present.”
― Rian Thum, The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History

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#7

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

tags: history

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#8

“Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians.”
― Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

tags: bourgeois, classism, social-criticism

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#9

“Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

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#10

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

tags: parenting, philosophy, self-assurance

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#11

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#12

“The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.”
― Albert Einstein

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#13

“Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: death, dumbledore, harry-potter, killing

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#14

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

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#15

“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#16

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

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#17

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#18

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: truth

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#19

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

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#20

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#21

“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac

tags: music, truth

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#22

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#23

“A clean conscience is the preserve of those without sufficient imagination.”
― Alain de Botton, The News: A User's Manual

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#24

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: language, perception, power-of-words

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#25

“Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: hell, solipsism

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#26

“Only describe, don't explain.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#27

“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy

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#28

“To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#29

“When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#30

“What can be shown, cannot be said.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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