Sophia

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Sophia’s Quotes

“Most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.”
― Plato, The Allegory of the Cave

tags: ignorance, truth

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“My brother used to ask the birds to forgive him; that sounds senseless but it is right; for all is like the ocean, all things flow and touch each other; a disturbance in one place is felt at the other end of the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“I've studied now Philosophy
And Jurisprudence, Medicine,—
And even, alas! Theology,—
From end to end, with labor keen;
And here, poor fool! with all my lore
I stand, no wiser than before:”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

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“I dream of a moment when, without my asking, my actions will betray completely this part of me that asks for nothing”
― Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love

tags: hope, meaning, nihilism

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“My loneliness is very great. I am not in need of friends, but I must speak of Myself and I have no one to speak to.”
― Leonid Andreyev, Judas Iskarijotas. Šėtono dienoraštis

tags: loneliness

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