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"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, inspirational, life
2 people liked it

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
— George Orwell

tags: liberty
57 people liked it

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

tags: religion, science
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"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."
— Confucius

tags: individuality, inspiration, validation
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"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."
— George William Curtis

tags: patriotic
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"I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: freedom, independence, individuality, liberty, patriotic, respect
25 people liked it

"The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country"
— General George S. Patton Jr.

tags: air-force, army, marines, military, navy, patriotic
4 people liked it

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: liberty, security
539 people liked it

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: freedom, liberty
116 people liked it

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it."
— Thomas Paine

tags: blessings, freedom, liberty
37 people liked it

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
— Confucius

tags: success
172 people liked it

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
— Confucius

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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
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"Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
— Socrates

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"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
— Socrates

tags: education
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"I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
— Socrates

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"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual"
— Socrates

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"Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy."
— Aristotle

tags: anger
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"Hope is a waking dream."
— Aristotle

tags: dreams, hope
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"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."
— Aristotle

tags: education
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"To perceive is to suffer."
— Aristotle

tags: life, suffer
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"I count him braver who overcomes his
desires than him who conquers his enemies,
for the hardest victory is over self."
— Aristotle

tags: ethics, philosphy, self-discovery
22 people liked it

"Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach."
— Aristotle

tags: teaching
30 people liked it

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."
— Aristotle

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"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

tags: compassion, kindness
914 people liked it

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
— Plato

tags: philosophy
304 people liked it

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men afraid of the light"
— Plato

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"One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
— Plato

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"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
— Plato

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"Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures."
— Plato

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"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than a year of conversation"
— Plato

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"Books are immortal sons defying their sires."
— Plato

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"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."
— Plato

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"Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil."
— Plato

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"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. "
— Plato

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"There is always HOPE.

(From The Lord of the Rings screenplay by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens; incorrectly attributed to JRR Tolkien)"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: hope, screenplay
331 people liked it

"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.
But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now
mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)

tags: hope, inspirational, love
383 people liked it

"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'

No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: hope, life, pain, strength, tragedy
77 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
7,474 people liked it

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: day, dreaming, dreams, night
575 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,226 people liked it

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: dreaming, dreams, perception
341 people liked it

"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."
— Edgar Allan Poe

76 people liked it

"Winter solitude-
in a world of one colour
the sound of the wind."
— Matsuo Basho

tags: haiku, poetry
36 people liked it

"Summer night-
even the stars
are whipering to each other.
"
— Issa

tags: haiku, poetry
19 people liked it

"Summer grasses,
All that remains
Of soldiers' dreams"
— Matsuo Bashō

tags: haiku, samurai, wisdom
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"Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.""
— Santoka Taneda (Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda)

tags: composition, creating, haiku, japanese, monks, poetry, zen
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"The world of dew
is the world of dew.
And yet, and yet--"
— Issa Kobayashi (The Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa)

tags: haiku
3 people liked it

""Fear profits a man nothing,The Skein of our lives was woven by the All-Father long ago.Run from your fate if you will,hide in a hole,you will not live a moment longer.Running will only make you die tired."
— Modified from the ancient Norse by Jacamo Peterson"
— Ancient Norse Proverb

tags: norse, northmen, vikings
4 people liked it

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