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“My experience is what I agree to attend to.”
― William James

“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

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

“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

“Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges.”
― Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Uncompleted Writings

“I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.”
― Herman Melville

“I try all things, I achieve what I can.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick oder Der Wal

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

“I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.”
― George Santayana

“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“Eppur si muove.”
― Galileo Galilei

“The shortest answer is doing.”
― George Herbert

“I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And what did others want from me? But I could never find the answers. Sometimes I would reach out and try to grasp the grains of light, but my fingers touched nothing.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Scratch an intellectual, and you find a would-be aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound and the smell of common folk.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“The permanent misfits can find salvation only in a complete separation from the self; and they usually find it by losing themselves in the compact collectivity of a mass movement.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer

“Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They represent a struggle and a victory.”
― Marcel Proust