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#1

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology

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#2

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism

2533 likes

#3

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: morality, philosophy

2500 likes

#4

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy

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#5

“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: philosophy

2064 likes

#6

“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”
― Rollo May

tags: philosophy

1587 likes

#7

“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart

1469 likes

#8

“Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

880 likes

#9

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
― William James

tags: attributed, honesty, integrity, philosophy, wisdom

704 likes

#10

“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: existentialism, philosophy

504 likes

#11

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: friendship, love, philosophy, women

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#12

“It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

tags: philosophy

446 likes

#13

“I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: philosophy, religion, science

410 likes

#14

“One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
― Sophocles

tags: philosophy

443 likes

#15

“I am my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy, solipsism

403 likes

#16

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
― Henri Bergson

tags: henry-bergson, philosophy

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#17

“Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

tags: death

34 likes

#18

“Forgetting extermination is part of extermination.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

tags: holocaust

29 likes

#19

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74135 likes

#20

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

10850 likes

#21

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

5263 likes

#22

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

4436 likes

#23

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: dance, dancing, music

4146 likes

#24

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
― Freidrich Neitzsche

tags: philosophy, women

1810 likes

#25

“That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”
― Nietzsche

1238 likes

#26

“In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: christian-behavior, christianity, religion

1215 likes

#27

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: battle-of-the-sexes, gender-stereotypes

1013 likes

#28

“Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

793 likes

#29

“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: boredom, life

613 likes

#30

“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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