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"There are no facts, only interpretations."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: perspective, truth
223 people liked it

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

tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion
207 people liked it

"Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

101 people liked it

"In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

63 people liked it

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: philosophical
39 people liked it

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. "
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational
43 people liked it

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi
3,231 people liked it

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: life
3,630 people liked it

"The Guide says that there is an art to flying,” said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
— Douglas Adams

tags: flight, flying, hg2g, humor
1,184 people liked it

"The problem with designing something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of a complete fool. "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

527 people liked it

"Don't Panic"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: gets, me, some, things, through, weird
490 people liked it

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
— Douglas Adams

tags: fiction, humor, science
339 people liked it

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: fiction, humor, novelist, science
171 people liked it

"So long and thanks...for all the fish!"
— Douglas Adams

107 people liked it

"If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now."
— Douglas Adams (The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: adams, beeblebrox, douglas, guide, hitchhiker-s, quote, zaphod
131 people liked it

"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor
82 people liked it

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
— Albert Einstein

tags: reality
2,093 people liked it

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

2,433 people liked it

"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
— Albert Einstein

tags: creativity, humor
1,942 people liked it

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

1,800 people liked it

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life
539 people liked it

"if a cluttered desk is that of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk?"
— Albert Einstein

234 people liked it

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: dumbledore
988 people liked it

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

tags: happiness
1,601 people liked it

"As strong as we are united. As weak as we are divided."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: strength, unity
623 people liked it

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: failure, harvard-commencement-speech
716 people liked it

"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: death, live, love
594 people liked it

"Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

tags: adventure
474 people liked it

"Nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: dumbledore
355 people liked it

"I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

tags: friends
210 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,443 people liked it

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
— Jane Austen

tags: humor, love, romantic, women
1,513 people liked it

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: husband, marriage, wife
840 people liked it

"Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings."
— Jane Austen

126 people liked it

"Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise."
— Jane Austen (Emma)

55 people liked it

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
— William Shakespeare

830 people liked it

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
— William Shakespeare

tags: human-condition
677 people liked it

"thus with a kiss I die"
— William Shakespeare

tags: history, romance
150 people liked it

"The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers."
— William Shakespeare

114 people liked it

"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."
— William Shakespeare

tags: love, william-shakespeare
78 people liked it

"For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. "
— William Shakespeare

58 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
2,782 people liked it

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

tags: food, love, music
1,147 people liked it

"Well, I certainly don't," said Percy sanctimoniously. "I shudder to think what the state of my in-tray would be if I was away from work for five days."

"Yeah, someone might slip dragon dung in it again, eh, Perce?" said Fred.

"That was a sample of fertilizer from Norway!" said Percy, going very red in the face. "It was nothing personal!"

"It was," Fred whispered to Harry as they got up from the table. "We sent it."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: humor
145 people liked it

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: magic
167 people liked it

"The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."
— J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

160 people liked it

"'You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!'

'What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?'"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

170 people liked it

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: death, inspirational
145 people liked it

"One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: books, christmas, socks
146 people liked it

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
— William Shakespeare

35 people liked it

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