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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
405 people liked it

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: life, philosophy
3,549 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,051 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,193 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
17,790 people liked it

"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
356 people liked it

"When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone."
— Pink Floyd (Pink Floyd: The Wall)

tags: philosophy
6 people liked it

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin

tags: philosophy
2,267 people liked it

"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 Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth
99 people liked it

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
— Carl Sagan

tags: aristocracy, capitalism, corruption, government, history, oppression, power, rationalization, society
8 people liked it

"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
— John Steinbeck

tags: corruption, fear, life, power
7 people liked it

"Long you live and high you fly
Smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
All you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.

"
— Pink Floyd

16 people liked it

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom
931 people liked it

"...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable."
— Robert Anton Wilson

tags: metaphysics, philosophy
28 people liked it

"I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions."
— Robert Anton Wilson

tags: esoteric, wisdom
14 people liked it

"The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization."
— Robert Anton Wilson

tags: anton, religion
58 people liked it

"Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities."
— Robert Anton Wilson

tags: esoteric, wisdom
12 people liked it

"In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time."
— Robert Anton Wilson (Principia Discordia, Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger)

6 people liked it

"On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break."
— Robert Anton Wilson

6 people liked it

"Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence"
— Robert Anton Wilson

tags: esoteric, wisdom
5 people liked it

"under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.
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— Robert Anton Wilson

8 people liked it

""Is", "is." "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment"
— Robert Anton Wilson

6 people liked it

"Of course there are robots among us. There are also Magicians among us. I think we take turns playing each role, as a matter of fact. The Magician defines a reality-mesh and the robot lives in it. Grok?"
— Robert Anton Wilson

1 person liked it

"What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different."
— V.C. Andrews

tags: audrina, my, sweet
22 people liked it

"I am what I am Are you what you are or What?"
— Alanis Morissette

tags: glbtq, individual, music
23 people liked it

"There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others."
— Tom Robbins

tags: human, wierd
67 people liked it

"You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans."
— Tom Robbins

52 people liked it

"To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought."
— Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)

24 people liked it

"There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for."
— Tom Robbins (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues)

tags: life
178 people liked it

"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
— Tom Robbins

tags: humor, magic
359 people liked it

"Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death."
— Tom Robbins

tags: death
38 people liked it

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
— Frank Zappa

tags: music, philosophy, progress
480 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,014 people liked it

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
— Anne Frank

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
1,384 people liked it

"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."
— Kahlil Gibrán

tags: philosophy, poetry
335 people liked it

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
— Richard Dawkins

tags: atheism, philosophy
401 people liked it

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, philosophy, religion
372 people liked it

"Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure"
— Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: happiness, philosophy
50 people liked it

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden)

tags: philosophy
36 people liked it

"Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained."
— Marcia Angell

tags: chronic, mercy, pain, wisdom
1 person liked it

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: death, love
2,168 people liked it

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: growth
588 people liked it

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: anais, nin, qoutes, writing
579 people liked it

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: courage, life
363 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,078 people liked it

"And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun"
— Pink Floyd (Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon)

tags: inspirational, music
15 people liked it

"There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're sayin'."
— Pink Floyd (Pink Floyd: The Wall)

tags: music
18 people liked it

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: independence, women
207 people liked it

"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: life
201 people liked it

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: writing
176 people liked it

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