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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: language, perception, power-of-words
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    Blaise Pascal
    “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: ironic, sad
    2309 likes

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  • #3
    Blaise Pascal
    “You always admire what you really don't understand.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    314 likes

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    Blaise Pascal
    “I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: heaven, hell, intelligence, paradise, stupidity
    430 likes

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  • #6
    Blaise Pascal
    “Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: humble, vanity
    174 likes

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    Jeremy Bentham
    “Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.”
    ― Jeremy Bentham
    tags: jeremy-bentham, philosopher, philosophy, quotes, utilitarianism
    20 likes

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    Jeremy Bentham
    “The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?”
    ― Jeremy Bentham (An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Philosophical Classics), The Principles of Morals and Legislation
    tags: animal-rights, moral, vegetarian
    524 likes

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  • #9
    Frantz Fanon
    “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”
    ― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
    340 likes

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    Frantz Fanon
    “Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.”
    ― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
    tags: citizenship, development, education, politics
    211 likes

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  • #11
    Frantz Fanon
    “Violence is man re-creating himself. ”
    ― Frantz Fanon
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  • #12
    Michel Foucault
    “Where there is power, there is resistance.”
    ― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
    tags: activism, leftism, power, resistance
    596 likes

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  • #13
    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
    4327 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    1106 likes

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  • #15
    William Gibson
    “When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
    ― William Gibson, Zero History
    tags: design, engineering, psychoanalysis, psychology
    355 likes

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  • #16
    William Gibson
    “Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”
    ― William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor
    tags: memory, time
    276 likes

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  • #17
    William Gibson
    “The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
    ― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
    tags: future
    1599 likes

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  • #18
    عباس محمود العقاد
    “- لست أهوى القراءة لأكتب ، ولا أهوى القراءة لأزداد عمراً في تقدير الحساب .. و إنما أهوى القراءة لأن عندي حياة واحدة ، وحياة واحدة لا تكفيني ، والقراءة - دون غيرها - هي التي تعطيني أكثر من حياة ، لأنها تزيد هذه الحياة من ناحية العمق”
    ― عباس محمود العقاد
    2170 likes

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  • #19
    Leo Tolstoy
    “اختراع مائة نظرية أسهل مائة مرة من تطبيق نظرية واحدة”
    ― ليو تولستوي
    168 likes

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  • #20
    ميلان كونديرا
    “فهي لم تكن تملك , في مقابلة عالم التفاهة الّذي يحيط بها , إلا سلاحاً واحداً : الكُتب !”
    ― ميلان كونديرا
    725 likes

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    ميلان كونديرا
    “وحدها الأسئلة الساذجة هي الأسئلة الهامة فعلاً. تلك الأسئلة التي تبقى دون جواب. إن سؤالاً دون جواب حاجز لا طرقات بعده. وبطريقة أخرى: الأسئلة التي تبقى دون جواب هي التي تشير إلى حدود الإمكانات الإنسانية، وهي التي ترسم وجودنا.”
    ― ميلان كونديرا
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  • #22
    ميلان كونديرا
    “الأنظمة المجرمة لم ينشئها أناس مجرمون وإنما أناس متحمسون ومقتنعون بأنهم وجدوا الطريق الوحيد الذي يؤدي الى الجنة فأخذوا يدافعون ببسالة عن هذا الطريق ... ومن أجل هذا قاموا بإعدام الكثيرين ثم فيما بعد أصبح جليا وواضحاً أكثر من النهار أن الجنة ليست موجودة و أن المتحمسين كانوا مجرد سفاحين”
    ― ميلان كونديرا
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  • #23
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
    43667 likes

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  • #24
    William Blake
    “Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”
    ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
    tags: argument, contraries
    307 likes

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  • #25
    Immanuel Kant
    “For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
    271 likes

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  • #26
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
    5818 likes

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  • #27
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “الإنسان هو الكائن الذي يتعود كل شئ!
    أظن أن هذا أحسن تعريف للإنسان ..”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    47 likes

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  • #28
    A.B. Guthrie Jr.
    “امنح بعض الرجال بندقية وشيئا من السلطة، وسوف تراهم يقومون بتنفيذ الأوامر بعنجهية وغباوة.”
    ― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West
    8 likes

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  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: power, sex
    7167 likes

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  • #30
    Woody Allen
    “I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
    ― Woody Allen, The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader
    tags: life
    998 likes

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  • #31
    عبدالكريم بكار
    “القارئ الجيد لا يقرأ كتبا كثيرة، لكنه إذا قرأ كتابا قرأه بطريقة جيدة”
    ― عبد الكريم بكار
    927 likes



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