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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: inspiration
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
    tags: conduct-of-life, life, self-confidence, self-trust
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: insanity
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: character, misattributed, nobility
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
    tags: fear, freedom, meaning-of-life, psychology, purpose-of-life, work
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “By seeking and blundering we learn.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: education, experience, learning-from-mistakes
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.”
    ― Wolfgang Goethe
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    William Shakespeare
    “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body and spirit. To get used to the life you'll most likely be leading soon, get rid of your low-class trappings.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: paraphrased, shakespeare
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions, Ou Sentences Et Maximes Morale (Éd.1665) (Litterature)
    tags: judgement, memory
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    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    ― John Locke
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    John Locke
    “The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
    ― John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education
    tags: defense, knowledge
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    John Locke
    “To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”
    ― John Locke
    tags: truth
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    John Locke
    “There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.”
    ― John Locke
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    John Locke
    “The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!”
    ― John Locke
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    John Locke
    “All wealth is the product of labor.”
    ― John Locke
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    John Locke
    “Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men’s opinions are superficial and confused.”
    ― John Locke, The Empiricists: Locke: Concerning Human Understanding; Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge & 3 Dialogues; Hume: Concerning Human Understanding & Concerning Natural Religion
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    John Locke
    “Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.”
    ― John Locke, Unknown Book 12380837
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    Irenaeus of Lyons
    “The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.”
    ― Irenaeus, The Apostolic Fathers: Justin Martyr, Irenaeus
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    Immanuel Kant
    “We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
    tags: contentment, poverty, riches
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    Immanuel Kant
    “He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
    ― Emmanuel Kant
    tags: animal-rights, cruelty, judge, morality, treatment
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    Immanuel Kant
    “I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”
    ― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
    tags: deny, faith, knowledge
    423 likes

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    Immanuel Kant
    “One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
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    Immanuel Kant
    “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”
    ― immanuel kant, Critique of Pure Reason
    tags: empiricism, knowledge, rationalism, reason, senses, understanding
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    Immanuel Kant
    “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
    ― Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
    tags: humanity, perfection
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    Immanuel Kant
    “Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
    tags: happiness, happy-life, hope, inspirational, life, love
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    Immanuel Kant
    “Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
    tags: brilliance, education, genius, independent, intellect, intelligence, self-education, taught, teaching
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    Immanuel Kant
    “The death of dogma is the birth of morality.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
    tags: death, dogma, morality
    177 likes

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    Immanuel Kant
    “Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
    143 likes



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