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#1

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince

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#2

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: rah

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#3

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

tags: manners, society

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#4

“Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and interest in facts. Their critical habit of mind makes them resistant to the kind of propaganda that works so well on the majority. Among the masses „instinct is supreme, and from instinct comes faith...”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

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#5

“If the truth shall kill them, let them die.”
― Immanuel Kant

tags: death, killing, truth

143 likes

#6

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why

5820 likes

#7

“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: science, sex

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#8

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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#9

“Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: love, philosophy, physics, priorities

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#10

“I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.”
― Richard Feynman

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#11

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

tags: misattributed

611 likes

#12

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: secrets

3552 likes

#13

“If a man doesn’t keep his word, he isn’t a man worth knowing, in my opinion.”
― S.J. West, Lucifer

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#14

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction

6235 likes

#15

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, self-mastery

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#16

“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: discipline, self-mastery, will-power

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#17

“We should every night call ourselves to an account;
What infirmity have I mastered today?
What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: self-mastery

153 likes

#18

“Love truth, but pardon error.”
― Voltaire

tags: truth

1426 likes

#19

“Dare to think for yourself.”
― Voltaire

tags: freedom-of-thought

1139 likes

#20

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
― Voltaire

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#21

“Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
― Voltaire

tags: money

443 likes

#22

“It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.”
― Voltaire

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#23

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
― Voltaire

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#24

“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”
― Voltaire

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#25

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting

2714 likes

#26

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

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#27

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom

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