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#1

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic

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#2

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding

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#3

“In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: humor, jerks, science

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#4

“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: politics, religion, science

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#5

“Genius hesitates.”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

tags: inspirational, science

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#6

“Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking.”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

tags: knowledge, life, philosophy, physics

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#7

“What opens our minds and shows the limits of our ideas is an encounter with other people, other cultures, other ideas.”
― Carlo Rovelli, The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy

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#8

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”
― Democritus

tags: mystery, religion, science

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#9

“Why should I fear death?
If I am, then death is not.
If Death is, then I am not.
Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear.
Religious tyranny did domineer.
At length the mighty one of Greece
Began to assent the liberty of man.”
― Epicurus

tags: death, end, fear, greece, liberty, religious-tyranny

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#10

“Epicurus's old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?”
― David Hume

tags: atheism

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#11

“I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)”
― Epicurus

tags: death, existence, life

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#12

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#13

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#14

“When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready... The teacher will Disappear.”
― Tao Te Ching

tags: appear, disappear, ready, student, tao-te-ching, teacher

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#15

“Art has a voice - let it speak.”
― Rochelle Carr

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#16

“The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.”
― Luhraw

tags: abstract, abstraction, art-quotes, artists-life, arts, canvas, luhraw, painters, painting, photography

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#17

“With the manipulation of abstract
symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and,
sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire.”
― Jonathan Culver

tags: art, artists, inspiration, shamanism, symbols

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#18

“When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water. Well, I've tried to express just that. If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirits.”
― Constantin Brancusi

tags: abstract, art, artist

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#19

“Before, I could only guess of who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am”
― Luhraw

tags: abstract-art, art-quotes, artists, fine-art, luhraw, painting, suprematists

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#20

“Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it.”
― Talismanist Giebra, Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.

tags: abstract-art, art, inspirational, life, meaning-of-life, motivational, purpose-of-life, short, spirituality, t-shirt

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#21

“I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.”
― Piet Mondrian

tags: abstraction, art, essence, truth

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#22

“At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,
since we are made of earth and rain.”
― Pablo Neruda, Regalo de un Poeta

tags: rain-rapa-nui

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#23

“In the cherry blossom's shade
there's no such thing
as a stranger.”
― Kobayashi Issa

tags: hospitality, old-songs, truth

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#24

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

tags: love

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#25

“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

tags: love

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#26

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

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#27

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

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#28

“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda

tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion

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#29

“so I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

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#30

“But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.”
― Pablo Neruda

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