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#1

“Questions from earlier circle like buzzards. Am I running away or moving forward?”
― Doug Cooper, Outside In

tags: buzzards, identity, moving-forward, outside-in, questions, running-away

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#2

“Even a rock moves on.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: burdens, moving-forward, rock

61 likes

#3

“Study the past if you would define the future.”
― Confucius

tags: direction, future, history, learning, moving-forward, past, strategy

1466 likes

#4

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

17363 likes

#5

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: apothegm, creativity, epigram, ideas

1423 likes

#6

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
― Marie Curie

tags: curiousity, gossip, humanity, ideas, intelligence

1163 likes

#7

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: ideas

700 likes

#8

“One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.”
― Robert Heinlein

tags: engineering, magic

74 likes

#9

“In engineering colleges, they have seating plans...And Students have cheating plans.”
― Lovely Goyal, I Love the Way You Love Me

tags: engineering, engineers, students

10 likes

#10

“Math is my Passion. Engineering is my Profession.”
― Wilfred James Dolor

tags: dolor, engineer, engineering, james, math, mathematics, wilfred

8 likes

#11

“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
― William Gibson, Zero History

tags: design, engineering, psychoanalysis, psychology

355 likes

#12

“একটি সমাজের সর্বাঙ্গীন গতির নাম রাজনীতি এবং সংস্কৃতি রাজনীতির রস-রক্ত, এই বোধে কোন রাজনৈতিক দল কিংবা লোকমান্য নেতার মন সিঞ্চিত হয়েছে, তেমন কোন দল বা ব্যক্তিত্বের নাম আজও জানা হয়নি। রাজনৈতিক দলগুলোর সংস্কৃতিবিমুখতা, কর্মীদের চেতনাহীনতা, সংস্কৃতি এবং রাজনীতিকে দু’টি আলাদা আলাদা ক্ষেত্র বলে চিহ্নিত করল। ফরাসি লেখক আলফাস দোঁদের একটি গল্পের কথা মনে পড়ছে। ফরাসিরা যুদ্ধে মার খেয়েছে, গল্পের নায়ক খুবই আশাহত হয়ে পড়েছে, আরেকজন তাঁকে উপদেশ দিচ্ছে ফরাসি সাহিত্য পড়ার। তার মানে ফরাসি সাহিত্যের মধ্যে এমন কিছু প্রাণদায়িনী উপকরণ রয়েছে, যার প্রভাবে নায়ক যুদ্ধে পরাজয়ের হতাশা কাটিয়ে উঠতে পারবে। পুরোপুরি না হোক, আংশিকভাবেও যদি আমাদের জাতি এই মনোভঙ্গি আয়ত্ত করতে না পারে, তাহলে বলতে হয় আমাদের বর্বর-দশা এখনও কাটেনি।”
― আহমদ ছফা, সাম্প্রতিক বিবেচনা: বুদ্ধিবৃত্তির নতুন বিন্যাস

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#13

“ছেলেটি তার বিছানা গুছিয়ে না রাখলে মা খুশি হয়, দেখতে পায় একটি পুরুষের জন্ম হচ্ছে; কিন্তু মেয়েটি বিছানা না গোছালে একটি নারীর মৃত্যু দেখে মা আতংকিত হয়ে পড়ে।”
― Humayun Azad, নারী

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#14

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

(Little Gidding)”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: new-beginnings, new-year, new-year-s-day

820 likes

#15

“Dare to think!”
― Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment?

359 likes

#16

“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.”
― Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

tags: courage, direction, enlightenment, philosophy, reason, slave, truth, tutelage, understanding

476 likes

#17

“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me.

That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind...”
― Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

tags: competence, cowardice, danger, laziness, mankind, nature, pastor, physician, reason, tutelage

174 likes

#18

“But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.”
― Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

tags: life, philosophy

158 likes

#19

“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.”
― Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

30 likes

#20

“অন্ধকারে যে বাস করে মৃদু আলোতে তাহার চোখ ঝলসাইয়া যায়।”
― Manik Bandopadhyay, পদ্মানদীর মাঝি

64 likes

#21

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: atheism, philosophy

4628 likes

#22

“Man is the cruelest animal.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: animals, cruelty, evil, man

2750 likes

#23

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: animals, cruelty, mankind

2708 likes

#24

“I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: cruelty, religion

1100 likes

#25

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109285 likes

#26

“Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: determinism, free-will, idealism, pessimism

816 likes

#27

“You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: free-will, freedom

144 likes

#28

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization

4362 likes

#29

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151337 likes

#30

“Prophets of doom warn that sooner or later Homo sapiens will exhaust the raw materials and energy of planet Earth. And what will happen then?”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

6 likes

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