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1
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I cannot fiddle, but I can make a small town into a great state

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Themistocles 514

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts

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Soren kierkeguard

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Love is all, it gives all and it takes all

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Soren Kierkegaard

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Be that self which one truly is

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Soren Kierkegaard

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Don’t forget to live yourself

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Soren Kierkegaard

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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are

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Soren Kierkegaard

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use

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Soren Kierkegaard

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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins

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Soren Kierkegaard

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced

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Soren Kierkegaard

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards

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Soren Kierkegaard

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Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays

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Soren Kierkegaard

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12
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The unexamined life is not worth living

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Socrates

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13
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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14
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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there wasbsomerhing not quite fair with it

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Thucydides

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15
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continually going on

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Thucydides

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It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men

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Thucydides

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17
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Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily

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William of Okham

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18
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The life of a man (In a star of nature) is solitary, nasty, brutish and short

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Thomas Hobbes

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Cogito, ergo sum

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René Descartes

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20
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He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors

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Martin Heidegger

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21
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We live in the best of all possible worlds

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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22
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What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational

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G w f Hegel

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23
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God is dead! He remains dead! And We have killed him

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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24
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There is but one truly philosophical question and that is suicide

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Albert Camus

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25
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One cannot step twice in the same river

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Heraclites

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26
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The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation

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Jeremy Benth

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27
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To be is to be perceived

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Bishop George Berkeley

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28
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination

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Immanuel Kant

29
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No man’s knowledge can go beyond his experience

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John Locke

30
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us

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Niccolo Machiavelli

31
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Liberty consists of doing what one desires

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John Stuart Mill

32
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It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no groundwhatever for supposing it to be true

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Bertrand Russell

33
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Even while they teach, men learn

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Seneca The Younger

34
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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance

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Socrates

35
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If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him

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Voltaire

36
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This is patently absurd but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn nor to be frightened by absurdities

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Bertrand Russell

37
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One cannot conceive anything so strange and implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another

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Renè Descartes

38
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Leisure is the mother of philosophy

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Thomas Hobbes

39
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Philosophy is the battle against the bewilderment of our intelligence by means of language

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

40
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There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers

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William James

41
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit

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Aristotle

42
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me

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G W F hegel

43
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

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John Locke

44
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Life must be understood backwards but it must be lived forward

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Soren Kierkegaard

45
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Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know

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Bertrand Russell

46
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Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man’s?

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Friedrich Nietzsche

47
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I would never down for my beliefs because I might be wrong

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Bertrand Russell

48
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Religion is the sign of the oppressed…it is the opium of the people

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Karl Marx

49
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it

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Epicurus

50
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Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable

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G w f Hegel

51
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we make make ourselves worthy of happiness

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Immanuel Kant

52
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Man is condemned to be free

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Jean Paul Sartre

53
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I dont know whybwebare here but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

54
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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that hisbwisdom is worthless

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Plato

55
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The only thing I know is that I know nothing

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Socrates

56
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3 o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do

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Jean Paul Sartre

57
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If you are lonely when you are alone then you are in bad company

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Jean Paul Sartre

58
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat

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Jean Paul Sartre

59
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There is only one day left, always starting over. It is given to us at dawn and taken away at dusk

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Jean Paul Sartre

60
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We do not judge the people we love

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Jean Paul Sartre

61
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Hell is - other people!

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Jean Paul Sartre

62
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Tjere may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours

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Jean Paul Sartre

63
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Words are loaded pistols

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Jean Paul Sartre

64
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live or what we are

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Jean Paul Sartre

65
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible

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Ezra Pound

66
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old

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Kafka

67
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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtue

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Kafka

68
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In the fight between you and the world, back the world

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Kafka

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