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Diderot. Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And
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Self-reverence.
“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
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“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
― Faust, First Part
― Faust, First Part
“it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
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