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Realising this can help us become less obsessive about our opinions, about our feelings, and about our desires. We don’t have free will, but we can be a bit more free from the tyranny of our will. Humans usually give so much importance to
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
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“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Diary
― Diary
“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
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“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
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succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
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“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.”
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