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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty
    tags: insanity, philosophy
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: humor, philosophy
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    Albert Einstein
    “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Elie Wiesel
    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
    tags: misattributed-einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: curiosity, philosophy, wonder
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: communication, inspirational, philosophy
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor, science
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    Albert Einstein
    “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: einstein, paraphrased, science, systems
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    Albert Einstein
    “What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: library
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    Albert Einstein
    “A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humility, self-examination
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    Albert Einstein
    “I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: create, misattributed, problem-solving, thinking
    518 likes

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    “All generalizations are false, including this one.”
    ― Unknown - attributed to Mark Twain by Normand Baillargeon
    tags: paradox
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    Albert Einstein
    “How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind...

    to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Elie Wiesel
    “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, advocacy, protest
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    Elie Wiesel
    “No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: judgmental-people, racism
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    Elie Wiesel
    “Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
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    Jacques Derrida
    “The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.”
    ― Jacques Derrida
    tags: derrida, philosophy, poetry
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    Socrates
    “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: marriage
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    George Orwell
    “On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
    ― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
    tags: goodness, human-nature, humour, philosophy
    806 likes



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