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    Albert Camus
    “Live to the point of tears.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: life, living
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
    39249 likes

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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
    24273 likes

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    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
    19276 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: life, love
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Where there is love there is life.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
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    Thomas Hobbes
    “For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other mens at a distance.”
    ― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
    tags: human-nature
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    Thomas Hobbes
    “The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.”
    ― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
    tags: materialism, naturalism, nature, philosophy, physics, science, universe
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
    tags: generalist, science
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
    tags: time-humanity
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
    tags: failure, learning, persistence, success
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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
    37573 likes

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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Voltaire
    “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: communication, foolishness, knowledge, sharing, teaching, wisdom
    2370 likes

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    John Locke
    “Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.”
    ― Locke John, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume II
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    John Locke
    “What worries you masters you.”
    ― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Volume I
    tags: anxiety, stress, worry
    62 likes

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  • #23
    Isaac Asimov
    “Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky
    tags: normalcy
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
    tags: inspiration, instinct, knowledge, search, seekers, self-awareness, self-discovery, understanding
    1953 likes

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    Hermann Hesse
    “We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: buddhism
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    Hermann Hesse
    “It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: admiration, love, philosophy, respect, world
    801 likes

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    Hermann Hesse
    “And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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    Hermann Hesse
    “The river is everywhere.”
    ― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: flow, life, omnipresence, river
    211 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
    21622 likes

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    Charles Darwin
    “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
    tags: dare, inspirational, life, science, time, value, waste
    2891 likes



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