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Zhuangzi
“A frog in a well cannot discuss the ocean, because he is limited by the size of his well. A summer insect cannot discuss ice, because it knows only its own season. A narrow-minded scholar cannot discuss the Tao, because he is constrained by his teachings. Now you have come out of your banks and seen the Great Ocean. You now know your own inferiority, so it is now possible to discuss great principles with you.
井蛙不可以語於海者,拘於虛也;夏蟲不可以語於冰者,篤於時也;曲士不可以語於道者,束於教也。今爾出於崖涘,觀於大海,乃知爾醜,爾將可與語大理矣。”
Zhuangzi, The Way of Chuang Tzu
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Nikola Tesla
“You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.”
Nikola Tesla

Henry Miller
“The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.”
Henry Miller, Sexus

Slavoj Žižek
“The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this phrase: “We holds these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Where did the somewhat awkward “pursuit of happiness” come from in this famous opening passage of the US Declaration of Independence? The origin of it is John Locke, who claimed that all men had the natural rights of life, liberty, and property— the latter was replaced by “the pursuit of happiness” during negotiations of the drafting of the Declaration, as a way to negate the black slaves’ right to property.”
Slavoj Žižek, In Defense of Lost Causes

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

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