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#1

“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

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“My language is the sum total of myself.”
― Charles S. Peirce

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“The highest mountain, the oldest books, the strangest people, there you will find the stone.”
― Athanasius Kircher

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“There's truths you have to grow into.”
― H.G. Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham

tags: disillusionment, maturity

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“Civilization is a race between disaster and education.”
― H.G. Wells

tags: civilization

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#5

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

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#6

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
― William James

tags: wisdom

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“In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.”
― Charles S. Peirce

tags: experience, learning, pedagogy

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“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
― William James

tags: action, happiness, motivational, work

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“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
― William James

tags: connection, friendship, sea

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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
― William James

tags: actions, attributed, change

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#10

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
― William James

tags: inspirational

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#11

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
― William James, The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

tags: inspirational

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“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”
― William James

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#14

“There is a false saying: “How can someone who can’t save himself save others?” Supposing I have the key to your chains, why should your lock and my lock be the same?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: helping-others

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#15

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement

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“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

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“Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings . . . the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with it the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art . . . So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense . . . madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

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“Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.”
― Charles S. Peirce

tags: philosophy, science

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#21

“Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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#21

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom

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#22

“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
― Aristotle

tags: teaching, understanding

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#23

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
― Aristotle

tags: solitude

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#24

“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”
― Aristotle

tags: inspirational, philosophy, writing

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#25

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
― Aristotle

tags: synergy

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#26

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

tags: curiosity, education, mentoring, mind, thinking

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#27

“The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.”
― Plutarch

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#28

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength

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“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: appreciation, awe, beauty, life, optimism, positivity, sense-of-wonder, stars

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#30

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: happiness

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