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โThe whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.โ
โ Bertrand Russell
โI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.โ
โ Socrates
โThe knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.โ
โ Avicenna
โWe are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.โ
โ Swami Vivekananda
โIn the beginning was the Wordโ
โ John 1:1
โIt is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change.โ
โ Charles Darwin
โEmptiness wrongly grasped is like picking up a poisonous snake by the wrong end.โ
โ Nagarjuna
โThe heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.โ
โ Blaise Pascal
โTalent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.โ
โ Arthur Schopenhauer
โIgnorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence.โ
โ Ibn Rushd
โIn the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.โ
โ Sun Tzu
โThe soul is healed by being with children.โ
โ Fyodor Dostoevsky
โThe only way to have a friend is to be one.โ
โ Ralph Waldo Emerson
โI have nothing to declare except my genius.โ
โ Oscar Wilde
โI would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.โ
โIn the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.โ
โ Albert Camus
โCalamity is the test of integrity.โ
โ Samuel Richardson
โLet your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.โ
โ Rabindranath Tagore
โThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.โ
โ Hannah Arendt
โNo great thing is created suddenly.โ
โ Epictetus
โThe great man is he who does not lose his childs heart.โ
โ Mencius
โThe more you know, the more you realize you do not know.โ
โ Aristotle
โThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.โ
โ George Santayana
โAll of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone.โ
โTo have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.โ
โ G.K. Chesterton
โTrue ignorance is not the absence of knowledge but the refusal to acquire it.โ
โ Karl Popper
โThe fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the foolish are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.โ
โFlow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.โ
โ Zhuangzi
โNo mans knowledge here can go beyond his experience.โ
โ John Locke
โI dreamed I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither. Then I awoke. Now I wonder: am I a man who dreamed of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of being a man?โ
โ Chuang Tzu
โLife is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.โ
โ Gabriel Marcel
โThe time to relax is when you don't have time for it.โ
โ Sydney J. Harris
โThe greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.โ
โ Michel de Montaigne
โDo not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.โ
โ Pythagoras
โThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.โ
โ Alan Watts
โNothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.โ
โ Democritus
โPeople demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.โ
โ Soren Kierkegaard
โEmotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts of this creatures reasoning itself.โ
โ Martha Nussbaum
โDifficulty is what wakes up the genius.โ
โ Napoleon Bonaparte
โArchitecture is frozen music.โ
โ Schelling
โJustice is what love looks like in public.โ
โ Cornel West
โExistence precedes essence.โ
โ Jean-Paul Sartre
โCogito, ergo sumโ
โ Renรฉ Descartes
โThe world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.โ
โ Augustine
โA wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.โ
โ David Hume
โThe things that we love tell us what we are.โ
โ Thomas Aquinas
โWhoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.โ
โ Friedrich Nietzsche
โThe real question of life after death is not whether it exists, but whether it is worth worrying about.โ
โ Yuval Noah Harari
โThe task of the public sphere is to subject the powerful to critique.โ
โ Jurgen Habermas
โThe truth is rarely pure and never simple.โ
โThe most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.โ
โ Thales
โTo understand everything is to forgive everything.โ
โ Baruch Spinoza
โThe mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.โ
โ John Milton
โThe unexamined life is not worth living.โ
โIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.โ
โ Jiddu Krishnamurti
โNo man is an islandโ
โ John Donne
โThe art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.โ
โ William James
โTo study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.โ
โ Dogen
โThe wound is the place where the Light enters you.โ
โ Rumi
โThe life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.โ
โ Thomas Hobbes
โThe affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.โ
โ Milarepa
โNo one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.โ
โDo not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.โ
โ Gautama Buddha
โThings do not change; we change.โ
โ Henry David Thoreau
โWe live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.โ
โ Iris Murdoch
โA leader is best when people barely know he exists.โ
โ Lao Tzu
โThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.โ
โ Marcus Aurelius
โTo be great is to be misunderstood.โ
โPatience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.โ
โ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
โPhilosophy is universal and without boundaries.โ
โ Karl Jaspers
โWhereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.โ
โ Ludwig Wittgenstein
โIt is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.โ
โ Adam Smith
โKnowledge without action is vanity, and action without knowledge is insanity.โ
โ Al-Ghazali
โThe only way to be truly free is to accept your limitations.โ
โ Slavoj Zizek
โAll sins are attempts to fill voids.โ
โ Simone Weil
โThe world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.โ
โ Bertrand de Jouvenel
โNothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.โ
โ G.W.F. Hegel
โThe most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.โ
โ Martin Heidegger
โYou can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.โ
โ Christopher Columbus
โThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.โ
โ Frederick Douglass
โWe have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.โ
โ Diogenes
โCompassion is the basis of morality.โ
โKnowledge itself is power.โ
โ Francis Bacon
โEveryone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.โ
โ Nicolo Machiavelli
โWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.โ
โMan is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.โ
โDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.โ
โ Seneca
โWe have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.โ
โ Zeno of Citium
โStrong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.โ
โIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.โ
โNot what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.โ
โ Epicurus
โOur life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.โ
โTo be is to be perceived.โ
โ George Berkeley
โThe art of living well and the art of dying well are one.โ
โThe limits of my language mean the limits of my world.โ
โWhenever you are in doubt, it is best to act.โ
โWhat matters is not whether a universe or a multiverse exists, but that ethical living remains possible.โ
โ Derek Parfit
โLife is like a camera. Just focus on whatโs important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things donโt work out, just take another shot.โ
โ Ziad K. Abdelnour
โThe only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.โ
โ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
โAt the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.โ
โ Plato
โI've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.โ
โ Michael Jordan
โHe who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.โ
โ Confucius
โThe world is not what I think, but what I live through.โ
โ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
โAct as if what you do makes a difference. It does.โ
โYou have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.โ
โHappiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; happiness dwells in the soul.โ
โMusic is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.โ
โ Leibniz
โThe meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.โ
โ Pablo Picasso
โThe amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius and vigor it contained.โ
โ John Stuart Mill
โWe are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.โ
โ Saint Augustine
โJudge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.โ
โ Voltaire
โThe courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable.โ
โ Paul Tillich
โThere is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.โ
โReal knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.โ
โYou are the universe experiencing itself.โ
โThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.โ
โ Rainer Maria Rilke
โIf you want to be happy, be.โ
โ Leo Tolstoy
โGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.โ
โ Maimonides
โWhen the student is ready, the teacher will appear.โ
โ Unknown
โCommon sense is not so common.โ
โHappiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.โ
โ Immanuel Kant
โTo will oneself free is also to will others free.โ
โ Simone de Beauvoir
โThe soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.โ
โThe secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.โ
โWe are all fools in love.โ
โ Jane Austen
โThe miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth.โ
โ Thich Nhat Hanh
โWe become full human agents capable of understanding ourselves through rich languages of expression.โ
โ Charles Taylor
โWise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.โ
โWe suffer more often in imagination than in reality.โ
โThe life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.โ
โThe best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.โ
โScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.โ
โDo unto others as you would have them do unto you.โ
โ Bible, Luke 6:31
โWhen the student is ready, the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear.โ
โWonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.โ
โThe test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.โ
โ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
โLife can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.โ
โThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.โ
โThe fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap.โ
โDwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.โ
โChange your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now without delay.โ
โJustice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.โ
โ John Rawls
โIf you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any momentโ
โThe symbol gives rise to thought.โ
โ Paul Ricoeur
โThe ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.โ
โIt is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.โ
โThe task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to tolerate insecurity.โ
โ Erich Fromm
โWhat does not kill us makes us stronger.โ
โThe philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.โ
โ Karl Marx
โDoubt is the origin of wisdom.โ
โ Rene Descartes
โIf you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.โ
โ John Galsworthy
โWhatever is, is.โ
โ Parmenides
โOne of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.โ
โ Thomas More
โI would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and liveโ
โMen are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.โ
โThe question is not who is going to let me; it is who is going to stop me.โ
โ Ayn Rand
โTo be human is to be driven by passion.โ
โ Nietzsche
โCharacter is destiny.โ
โ Heraclitus
โIf it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening without sacrificing anything of comparable importance, we ought to do it.โ
โ Peter Singer
โLiberty, Equality, Fraternity.โ
โ French National Motto
โThe day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness the energies of love.โ
โ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
โAnxiety is the dizziness of freedom.โ
โGive me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the worldโ
โ Archimedes
โFreedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.โ
โI think, therefore I am.โ
โLuck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.โ
โThe three most harmful addictions are narcotics, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.โ
โ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
โWe are what our thoughts have made us.โ
โWhere there is power, there is resistance.โ
โ Michel Foucault
โThe art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.โ
โ Alfred North Whitehead
โExperience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.โ
โ Aldous Huxley
โThere is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.โ
โThe purpose of life is a life of purpose.โ
โ Robert Byrne
โBecause you are alive, everything is possible.โ
โLife has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life.โ
โ Joseph Campbell
โI am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.โ
โ Woody Allen
โEntities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.โ
โ William of Ockham
โIt is much safer to be feared than loved, if one cannot be both.โ
โ Niccolo Machiavelli
โThat which does not kill us makes us stronger.โ
โPower tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutelyโ
โ Lord Acton
โHe who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.โ
โThe soul that is without a fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.โ
โMan is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.โ
โThere is nothing outside of the text.โ
โ Jacques Derrida
โBeauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.โ
โThere are no facts, only interpretations.โ
โTo become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.โ
โ Montesquieu
โAct so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.โ
โ Hans Jonas
โKnowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.โ
โOne is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.โ
โIt is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.โ
โ Eugene Ionesco
โTo be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.โ
โWhat worries you, masters you.โ
โThe good life is a process, not a state of being.โ
โ Carl Rogers
โThe face of the other commands me.โ
โ Emmanuel Levinas
โAct that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.โ
โThe only thing that is constant is change.โ
โThe only real wisdom is knowing you know nothing.โ
โThe only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way.โ
โDare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.โ
โWe live in an age of exhaustion and fatigue because we are always pushing ourselves.โ
โ Byung-Chul Han
โDo not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.โ
โWhatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.โ
โThe world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religionโ
โ Thomas Paine
โI know that I know nothing.โ
โIf you do not change direction, you may end up where you are headingโ
โ Will Durant
โLanguage is the house of being.โ
โThe beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.โ
โ Thomas Merton
โThere is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.โ
โ William Shakespeare
โLife must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.โ
โ Sรธren Kierkegaard
โThe absurd does not liberate; it binds.โ
โLife is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.โ
โ Sarah Louise Delany
โThere is nothing permanent except change.โ
โHe who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.โ
โ Anne Bronte
โWe are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.โ
โArise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.โ
โThe measure of a man is what he does with power.โ
โKnowledge is power.โ
โTo know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.โ
โLove is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.โ
โThe journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.โ
โHappiness depends upon ourselves.โ
โSilence is the language of God; all else is poor translation.โ
โIt is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.โ
โHistory repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.โ
โKnow thyself.โ
โThe opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all is what we mean by the truth.โ
โ Charles Sanders Peirce
โThe sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.โ
โWe suffer more in imagination than in reality.โ
โTruth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.โ
โ Richard Rorty
โLiberty for wolves is death to the lambs.โ
โ Isaiah Berlin
โThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.โ
โIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.โ
โThe world is divided into men who have wit and no religion, and men who have religion and no wit.โ
โNo man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.โ
โAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.โ
โKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.โ
โEthics precedes ontology.โ
โWe do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.โ
โ John Dewey
โIgnorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to conflict.โ
โHe who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.โ
โI am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.โ
โTo be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world.โ
โWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.โ
โBeauty lies in the eye of the beholder.โ
โThe life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oysterโ
โLeisure is the mother of philosophy.โ
โHe who dares not offend cannot be honest.โ
โOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.โ
โ Khalil Gibran
โIt is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.โ
โIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, that will be enough.โ
โ Meister Eckhart
โThe highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.โ
โPeace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence.โ
โI can only answer the question what am I to do if I can answer the prior question of what story am I part of.โ
โ Alasdair MacIntyre
โAll real living is meeting.โ
โ Martin Buber
โDevelopment is about transforming the lives of people, not just the economy.โ
โ Amartya Sen
โMankind is made great or little by its own will.โ
โ Friedrich Schiller
โA concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason or it can be thrown through the window.โ
โ Gilles Deleuze
โYour children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of lifes longing for itself.โ
โWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.โ
โGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.โ
โThe only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.โ
โHell is other people.โ
โThat man is wisest who realizes that his wisdom is worthless.โ
โPrejudices are what fools use for reason.โ
โDo not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.โ
โWithout music, life would be a mistake.โ
โTo one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.โ
โNothing is miserable unless you think it so.โ
โ Boethius
โTo do two things at once is to do neither.โ
โ Publilius Syrus
โMan is condemned to be free.โ
โAn optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight.โ
โ Albert Schweitzer
โWhat doesn't kill us makes us stronger.โ
โThe greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.โ
โBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight; but there is a beauty for the hearing too.โ
โ Plotinus
โForgiveness is the key to action and freedom.โ
โKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.โ
โ Laozi
โHappiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.โ
โThe way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.โ
โPhilosophy is the highest music.โ
โLearning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.โ
โUnderstanding is always more than merely recreating someone elses meaning.โ
โ Hans-Georg Gadamer
โOne must imagine Sisyphus happy.โ
โOne must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.โ
โThe moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination.โ
โ bell hooks
โNo man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.โ
โBetween stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our freedom.โ
โ Viktor Frankl
โWe lose ourselves in what we read only to return to ourselves, transformed.โ
โ Judith Butler
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