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  • #1
    Étienne de La Boétie
    “لا يوجد في العالم من يشعر بالمسؤولية عن الفساد الذي يقع في الأرض وإنما ينسبه إلى الآخرين.”
    Étienne de La Boétie, مقالة في العبودية المختارة

  • #2
    “Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.”
    Anaxagoras

  • #3
    Matt Ridley
    “Anaxagoras’ belief that lying on the right side during sex would produce a boy was so influential that centuries later some French aristocrats had their left testicles amputated.”
    Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

  • #4
    Émile Faguet
    “Like Anaximander, [Anaxagoras] believed that everything emerged from something indeterminate and confused; but he added that what caused the emergence from that state was the organizing intelligence, the Mind, just as in man, it is the intelligence which draws thought from cerebral undulations, and forms a clear idea out of a confused idea.”
    Emile Faguet

  • #5
    “Mind is god and god is Mind”
    Anaxagoras

  • #6
    Epictetus
    “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
    Epictetus

  • #7
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
    Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
    Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
    Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
    Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
    Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
    Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #8
    Sextus Empiricus
    “Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.”
    Sextus Empiricus

  • #9
    Sextus Empiricus
    “The wise man is always similar to himself.”
    Sextus Empiricus

  • #10
    Herodotus
    “Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”
    Herodotus, The Histories

  • #11
    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    Euripides, The Bacchae

  • #12
    Thomas à Kempis
    “Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
    Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

  • #13
    Meister Eckhart
    “Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.”
    Meister Eckhart

  • #14
    Terence
    “Veritas odium parit. (Truth breeds hatred)”
    Terence

  • #15
    Horatius
    “Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”
    Horace

  • #16
    Plutarch
    “I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
    Plutarch

  • #17
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “I never change, I simply become more myself.”
    Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

  • #18
    Stendhal
    “One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
    Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

  • #19
    Laurence Sterne
    “Human nature is the same in all professions.”
    Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

  • #20
    Galileo Galilei
    “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
    Galileo Galilei

  • #21
    Pierre Corneille
    “A liar is always lavish of oaths.”
    Pierre Corneille

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #23
    Osho
    “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
    Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
    So if you love a flower, let it be.
    Love is not about possession.
    Love is about appreciation.”
    Osho

  • #24
    Ramana Maharshi
    “Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”
    Ramana Maharshi

  • #25
    Georges Bataille
    “I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
    Georges Bataille, Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille

  • #26
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

  • #27
    Noam Chomsky
    “We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
    Noam Chomsky

  • #28
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #29
    Edmond Rostand
    “A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.”
    Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

  • #30
    Woody Allen
    “The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”
    Woody Allen



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