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  • #1
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.”
    Alexis de Tocqueville

  • #2
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #3
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.”
    Freidrich Neitzsche

  • #4
    Austin Grossman
    “When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.”
    Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible

  • #5
    “If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”
    Aristotle Onassis

  • #6
    Henry Kissinger
    “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”
    Henry Kissinger

  • #7
    Matt Ridley
    “Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race”
    Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

  • #8
    “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
    Anthony G. Oettinger

  • #9
    Michel de Montaigne
    “Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
    Montaigne, The Complete Essays

  • #10
    George Bernard Shaw
    “All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
    George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska the Bolshevik Empress

  • #11
    Bertrand Russell
    “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #12
    Thomas Jefferson
    “He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #13
    Orson Scott Card
    “In order to learn, one must change one's mind.”
    Orson Scott Card

  • #14
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.

    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities

  • #15
    Isaac Asimov
    “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #17
    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    Voltaire

  • #18
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #19
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “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 Nietzsche

  • #20
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”
    Nietzsche

  • #21
    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #22
    Benito Mussolini
    “Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.”
    Benito Mussolini

  • #23
    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “Heresy is the eternal dawn, the morning star, the glittering herald of the day. Heresy is the last and best thought. It is the perpetual New World, the unknown sea, toward which the brave all sail. It is the eternal horizon of progress.
    Heresy extends the hospitalities of the brain to a new thought.
    Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy, a coffin.”
    Robert G. Ingersoll, Heretics and Heresies:From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'

  • #25
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
    Niccolo Machiavelli

  • #26
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #27
    Voltaire
    “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
    Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

  • #28
    Confucius
    “People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.”
    Confucius

  • #30
    Sun Tzu
    “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
    Sun tzu, The Art of War

  • #31
    Gautama Buddha
    “All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.”
    Gautama Buddha

  • #32
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #34
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Then I glanced at the ring on my finger.

    The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from?

    I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once—and you all went away.

    So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light.

    You aren’t really there at all. There isn’t anybody but me—Jane—here alone in the dark.

    I miss you dreadfully!”
    Robert A. Heinlein



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