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A learned fool is more of a fool than an ignorant fool.
Moliere
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
Sigmund Freud
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You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Fredrich Nietzsche
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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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A fictitious idea cannot be simple, but is formed by the blending of confused ideas of various things & actions existing in Nature.
Spinoza
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza
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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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Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man’s?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
Dalai Lama
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung
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The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
Carl Jung
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain
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To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
Thomas Paine
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A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato
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Theist vs. Atheist
If we are prepared to be honest about this, there isn't a human being on this planet who has ever been anything other than agnostic concerning the existence of God. This simple fact brings to an end any single useless argument between people who believe they are theist or atheist.
Nobody in the entire history of humankind has ever brought forward any credible evidence to support or refute the existence of God.
The root of all theistic arguments is "I believe there is a God." With variable confirmation biased claims to support that belief.
The root of all atheistic arguments is "I don't believe there is a God." with variable confirmation biased claims to support that belief. The wise person is brave enough to light to say "I don't know." and also "It's irrelevant to my ongoing experience."
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Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
Herbert Marcuse
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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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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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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
Baruch Spinoza
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
Aristotle
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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake.
Confucius
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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
Mark Twain
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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus
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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Unknown
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We have been raised to fear our deepest cravings. And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, and leads us to settle for many facets of our own oppression.
Audre Lorde
