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“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”
― Carl Gustav Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“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

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
― Bertrand Russell

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

“The menu is not the meal.”
― Alan Watts

“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”
― Heinrich Heine

“Take it easy, but take it.”
― Woody Guthrie

“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“I am my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness.”
― Philip K. Dick

“The only reason this one feels special is because it's happening to you”
― Jonathan Sims, The Magnus Archives: Season 4