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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown"
— H.P. Lovecraft

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"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die."
— H.P. Lovecraft (The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Weird Stories)

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""The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.""
— H.P. Lovecraft (The Call of Cthulhu)

tags: comprehension, human, mind
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"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."
— Christopher Hitchens

tags: reason, science, skeptic
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"The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more."
— Christopher Hitchens (The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-believer)

tags: atheism, death, inspirational, life
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"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
— Richard Dawkins

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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
— Stephen W. Hawking

tags: ignorance, knowledge
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"And so it goes..."
— Kurt Vonnegut

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"I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs."
— Sam Harris (Letter to a Christian Nation)

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"Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?"
— Brian Greene (The Fabric of the Cosmos)

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"God will endure for as long as the reasons that brought him into being;
And so will those who deny him."
— Michel Onfray

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"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
— Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)

tags: supernatural, wicked
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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 Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark, fighting, monsters, side, soul
368 people liked it

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: individuality
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"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,702 people liked it

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
— Socrates

tags: wisdom
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"Know thyself."
— Socrates

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"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
— Socrates

tags: ignorance, knowledge
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"O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?"
— Dante Alighieri (The Divine Comedy)

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"There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.

Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
- Inferno (V, 121),"
— Dante (Inferno (Modern Library Series) - translated by John Ciardi)

tags: À, dante, du, italian, la, medieval, nostalgia, perdu, poetry, recherche, temps
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"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
— H.P. Lovecraft

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"Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty."
— H.P. Lovecraft

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"The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. "
— H.P. Lovecraft

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"To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.."
— H.P. Lovecraft

tags: letters
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"The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life."
— H.P. Lovecraft

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"Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be.
Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else..."
— H.P. Lovecraft

tags: god, mankind, religion
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"From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent."
— H.P. Lovecraft

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"Man is the most intelligent of animals -- and the most silly."
— Diogenes Laërtius

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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
— Aristotle (Metaphysics)

tags: wisdom
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"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

tags: wisdom
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
— Aristotle

tags: happiness
215 people liked it

"To perceive is to suffer."
— Aristotle

tags: life, suffer
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"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
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"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: change, mind, nietzsche
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"Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: suicide
38 people liked it

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: christianity
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