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The best answer to anger is silence. (Marcus Aurelius)
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. (Baruch Spinoza)
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. (Albert Camus)
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason. (Voltaire)
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The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual. (Herbert Marcuse)
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. (Hannah Arendt)
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Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being. (Martin Heidegger)
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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. (David Hume)
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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. (Mark Twain)
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. (Karl Marx)
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The quality of our mind state in nowness is not dependent on what anyone else thinks, says or does. It does not depend on external events. The quality of the mind state will be defined by the conditioned perceived unhelpful reaction of the confused self referential mind or the compassionate response of its consciously aware counterpart.
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Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
Thomas Carlyle
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A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins. (Martin Heidegger)
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When we believe we know something is definitly true, our minds close to the idea that it might be untrue. We sustain the knowledge and don't tend to change it. This state avoids us from seeing things as they are.
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To live alone is the fate of all great souls. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. (Kant)
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It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true. (Bertrand Russell)
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The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it. (Herbert Marcuse)
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
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Every man is an actor of his own ideals. (Frederick Nietzsche)
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. (David Hume)
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. (Rene Descartes)
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. (Ernest Hemingway)
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. (Bertrand Russell)
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
Blaise Pascal
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Intelligence is not normally distributed.
Naval Ravikant
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. (Mahatma Gandhi)
