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#1

“You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.”
― Octave Mirbeau

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#2

“An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.”
― Arthur Miller

tags: change, illusion, time

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#3

“Everything's amazing right now, and nobody's happy.”
― Louis C.K., Hopeless

tags: amazing, ck, funny, louis

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#4

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
― Matsuo Bashō

tags: wisdom

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#5

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
― Heinrich Heine

tags: books, censorship

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#6

“As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.”
― John Dewey

tags: attenuation, big-business, business, corruption, politics, shadow, substance

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#7

“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

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#8

“1. A Cup of Tea

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), recieved a university professor who came to inqure about Zen.
Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring.
The professor watched the overflow until he could no longer restrain himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your up?”
― Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps

tags: open-mindedness, zen

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#9

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
― Epictetus

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#10

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.”
― John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy

tags: ethics, fight, foreign-policy, injustice, inspirational, justice, morality, motivational, patriotic, safety, selfish, tyranny, war, will

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#11

“And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long – he has existed long. For what if you should think that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept hither and thither by a succession of winds that raged from different quarters, had been driven in a circle around the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

tags: life, living

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#12

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: language, perception, power-of-words

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#13

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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#14

“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

tags: information, knowledge, problems

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#15

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence

tags: dh-lawrence, self-pity

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#16

“Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. ”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

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#17

“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: philosophy, taoism

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#18

“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: acceptance, actions, beliefs, common-sense, confusion, disbelief, evidence, faith, family, hoping, life-purpose, love, mixed-signals, obvious, outrage, proof, reality, religion, sorrow, timing, truth, unrequited-love

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#19

“If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: beliefs, causes, character, interests, judgement, passionate, personality, reputation, soul, true-self, viewpoint

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#20

“Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

tags: beliefs, free-speech, freedom, guarding, guards, injustice, justice, protection

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#21

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

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#22

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
― Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

tags: abnormal, frankl, meaning, viktor

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#23

“Obsessions are the only things that matter.”
― Patricia Highsmith

tags: autism, matter, meaning, obsessions

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#24

“Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: bigger-picture, career, comedian, equality, farmer, hard-work, income, labor, meaning, money, nurse, occupation, self-worth, value, work, worth, writer

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#25

“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness. If one is not cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program, that is to say, ‘mercy’ killing of all those who have lost their social usefulness, be it because of old age, incurable illness, mental deterioration, or whatever handicap they may suffer. Confounding the dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from conceptual confusion that in turn may be traced back to the contemporary nihilism transmitted on many an academic campus and many an analytical couch.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: dignity, existentialism, human-dignity, meaning, nihilism, usefulness

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#26

“Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: humor, life, regret

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#27

“The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner contradictions, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposite halves.”
― C.G. Jung, Aion

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#28

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas

tags: hope, inspirational, wisdom

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#29

“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

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#30

“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.”
― Max Stirner

tags: fairy-gift, freedom, philosophy, responsibility

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