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“What thou lovest well remains.”
― Ezra Pound

“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
― Michel Foucault

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.”
― Bernard Williams

“I am my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Until you die .. it's all life.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.”
― Kurt Gödel

“Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

“When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.”
― Ezra Pound

“There's truths you have to grow into.”
― H.G. Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham

“A gun will give you the body, not the bird”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.”
― Albert Camus

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
― 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

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Budget the luxuries first.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

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

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.”
― Noam Chomsky

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods

“It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

“Read not the Times, read the Eternities.”
― Thoreau Henry David

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.”
― Richard Dawkins

“There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations”
― Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good