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• True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophical

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• When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Pain, Philosophical, Doctors

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.56, BookBaby

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• I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Tree, Want

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.61, Faber & Faber

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• The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Work, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

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• Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

  Max Picard

  Change, Loss, Men

  Max Picard (1952). “The World of Silence”

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• All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

  Immanuel Kant

  Three, May, Philosopher

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.359, Read Books Ltd

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• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  New Year, Failure, Able

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• How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Reality, Thinking

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (18), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.

  Averroes

  Positive, Fear, Hate

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• 'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Fear, Rights, Said

  In a statement on the 180th anniversary of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, written by Thomas Jefferson, as quoted in Quote, May 20, 1956.

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• You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Being Happy, Mean

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and their political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities as we move towards universal egalitarianism.

  Max Horkheimer

  Education, Moving, Gun

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• To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Learning

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• What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

  Plato

  Real, Twilight, Errors

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• When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

  Epictetus

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Philosophy begins in wonder.

  Plato

  Education, Philosophical, Science

  Plato, Seth Benardete (1986). “Plato's Theaetetus: Part I of The Being of the Beautiful”, University of Chicago Press

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• Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Wisdom, Philosophical

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• One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Two, Lacking

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  And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Eye, Soul, Reason

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.27

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• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

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