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#1

“In 1787, at an inn near Moulins, an old man was dying, a friend of Diderot, trained by the philosophers. The priests of the neighbourhood were nonplussed: they had tried everything in vain; the good man would have no last rites, he was a pantheist. M. de Rollebon, who was passing by and who believed in nothing, bet the Cure of Moulins that he would need less than two hours to bring the sick man back to Christian sentiments. The Cure took the bet and lost: Rollebon began at three in the morning, the sick man confessed at five and died at seven. “Are you so forceful in argument?” asked the Cure, “You outdo even us.” “I did not argue,” answered M. de Rollebon, “I made him fear Hell.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

tags: atheism, fear, hell, theism

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#2

“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.”
― Stanley Kubrick

tags: director, film, stanley-kubrick, want, wanting

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#3

“إياك و الرضى عن نفسك فإنه يضطرك إلى الخمول، وإياك والعجب فإنه يورطك في الحمق، وإياك والغرور فإنه يظهر للناس كلهم نقائصك كلها ولا يخفيها إلا عليك...”
― طه حسين

tags: اديب

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#4

“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. . . let us be above such transparent egotism.”
― Will Durant

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#5

“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
― Stephen Fry

tags: advice, depression, friendship, life, self-help

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#6

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way

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#7

“We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

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#8

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays

tags: beauty, beholder, evil, god, perception, religion, religious-meaning

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#9

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

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#10

“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”
― George Carlin

tags: books, bookstores, self-help

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#11

“The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.”
― Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

tags: focus, happiness, law-of-attraction, life-changing, manifestation, millionaire-mindset, mind-power, new-age, opportunity, positivity, self-help, spirituality, stephen-richards, success, visualization, wealth-creation

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#12

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

tags: home, love, relationships, touching

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#13

“Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.”
― Will Durant

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#14

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#15

“Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember......”
― Klaus Mann, The Turning Point: Thirty-Five Years in this Century, the Autobiography of Klaus Mann

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#16

“Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

tags: intellect, lost-symbol, research

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#17

“سأنجب طفلا أسميه آدم.. لأن الاسامى فى زماننا تهمة.. فلن أسميه محمد ولا عيسى.. لن أسميه عليا ولا عمرا.. لن أسميه صداما ولا حسينا.. ولا حتى زكريا أو إبراهيم.. ولا حتى ديفيد ولا جورج.. أخاف أن يكبر عنصريا وأن يكون له من اسمه نصيب.. فعند الأجانب يكون إرهابيا.. وعند المتطرفين يكون بغيا.. وعند الشيعة يكون سنيا.. وعند السنة يكون علويا أو شيعيا.. أخاف أن يكون اسمه جواز سفره. أريده آدم مسلم مسيحى.. أريده أن لا يعرف من الدين إلا أنه لله.. وأريده أن يعرف أن الوطن للجميع.. سأعلمه أن الدين ما وقر فى قلبه وصدقه وعمله وليس اسمه،...سأعلمه أن العروبة وهم.. وإن الإنسانية هى الأهم.. سأعلمه أن الجوع كافر والجهل كافر والظلم كافر.... سأعلمه أن الله فى القلوب قبل المساجد والكنائس...، وأن الله محبة وليس مخافة.. سأعلمه ما نسى أهلنا أن يعلمونا.. سأعلمه أن ما ينقصنا هو ما عندنا.. وأن ما عندنا هو الذى ينقصنا.. سأعلمه أنى بدأت حديثى بأننى سأنجبه ذكرا.. لأن الأنثى ما زالت توأد.. وأن الخلل باق فى المجتمع العربي”
― محمد الماغوط

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#18

“If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.”
― Orson Welles

tags: civilization

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#19

“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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#20

“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: humanity, humility, mistakes, strength, wisdom

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#21

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

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#22

“Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. ”
― Gore Vidal

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#23

“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
― Gore Vidal, Screening History

tags: america, american-ts, americans, educated-voters, elections, hope, political-education, politics, vote

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#24

“There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

tags: cynicism, dire

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#25

“He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: bdsm-sex, leadership, politics, tyranny

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#26

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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#27

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
― Albert Einstein

tags: 1955, curiosity, mystery

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#28

“Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.”
― Woody Allen

tags: attributed, humor, physics, religion

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#29

“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers

tags: particles, physics, quantum, reality, science, strange

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#30

“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
― Erwin Schrödinger

tags: consciousness, matter, physics, science

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