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“Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.”
― Greg Bear

tags: poetry, poets

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#2

“Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: evil, good, love

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#3

“The mome rath isn't born that could outgrabe me!”
― Nicol Williamson

tags: humor

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#4

“The blood is the life!”
― Bram Stoker

tags: classic, dracula, vampire

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#5

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

tags: optimism, pessimism

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#6

“Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.”
― Werner Heisenberg

tags: science

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#7

“No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.”
― Pythagoras

tags: individuation, know-thyself

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#8

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: darkness-self-knowledge, social

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#9

“All that is transitory is but a metaphor.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: everything, existential, existentialism, life, metaphor

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#10

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

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#11

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

tags: infinity, perception

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#12

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: essential, happiness, love

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#13

“Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.”
― Werner Heisenberg

tags: metaphor, models, physics, quantum-mechanics

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#14

“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: greatness, myth, pretension, sardonic

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#15

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: freedom, law, morality, rules

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#16

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: rah

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#17

“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: communist, conservative, control, controlled, democrat, fascist, liberal, political-tags, politics, populist, royalist

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#18

“The map is not the territory.”
― Alfred Korzybski

tags: cybernetics, metaphysics, philosophy

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#19

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

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#20

“In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

tags: discordian, discordianism, eternity, humor, joke

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#21

“As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: agnostic, agnosticism, atheism, atheist, philosophy

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#22

“I am the spirit that negates.
And rightly so, for all that comes to be
Deserves to perish wretchedly;
'Twere better nothing would begin.
Thus everything that that your terms, sin,
Destruction, evil represent—
That is my proper element.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust - Part One

tags: destruction, entropy, everything-must-perish, evil, mephistopheles, negation

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#23

“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, lucifer, rebellion, revolt, satan

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#24

“There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”
― Pierre Dos Utt, Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order

tags: misattributed-milton-friedman, misattributed-robert-a-heinlein, tanstaafl, tanstafl

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#25

“I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.”
― Robert Anton Wilson

tags: esoteric-wisdom, previous-thoughts

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#26

“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Down to Earth

tags: history, horror

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#28

“Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

tags: future, gate, gates, guardian, key, past, present, yog-sothoth

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#29

“The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one's own path, not that of the crowd.”
― Nicholas Tharcher, Rebels & Devils; A Tribute to Christopher S. Hyatt

tags: autonomy, metaphysics, philosophy

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#30

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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#31

“Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.”
― Walter Kaufmann

tags: books

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