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  • #1
    Lao Tzu
    “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
    Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

  • #2
    Confucius
    “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
    Confucius

  • #3
    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    Albert Camus

  • #4
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    Albert Camus

  • #5
    Dan Millman
    “The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.”
    Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

  • #6
    George Orwell
    “On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
    George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

  • #7
    Vladimir Lenin
    “Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
    Vladimir Lenin

  • #8
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #9
    Aristotle
    “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
    Aristotle

  • #10
    Edith Södergran
    “The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
    Edith Södergran

  • #11
    Isaac Newton
    “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”
    Isaac Newton

  • #12
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

  • #13
    Slavoj Žižek
    “If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
    Slavoj Žižek

  • #14
    René Descartes
    “I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen”
    Rene Descartes, The Principles Of Philosophy

  • #15
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
    Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

  • #16
    René Descartes
    “Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
    René Descartes

  • #17
    James Madison
    “Philosophy is common sense with big words.”
    James Madison

  • #18
    Aristotle
    “Philosophy can make people sick.”
    Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

  • #19
    Gilles Deleuze
    “If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.”
    Gilles Deleuze

  • #20
    Joseph Campbell
    “You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”
    Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

  • #21
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.”
    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

  • #22
    Lao Tzu
    “Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #23
    Terry Pratchett
    “We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.”
    Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

  • #24
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Few things are more deceptive than memories.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #25
    Alan             Moore
    “We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.”
    Alan Moore, Watchmen

  • #26
    W.B. Yeats
    “People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ”
    William Butler Yeats

  • #27
    Thomas Sowell
    “It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.”
    Thomas Sowell

  • #28
    Dale Carnegie
    “Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
    Dale Carnegie

  • #29
    Dale Carnegie
    “you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry”
    Dale Carnegie

  • #30
    Martha Grimes
    “Before you hate something you should try to understand it.”
    Martha Grimes, Dakota



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