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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Milan Kundera
    “And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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    Alfred North Whitehead
    “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
    ― Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
    tags: european, influence, philosophy, plato, tradition
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
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    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
    tags: philosophy
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, chaos
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There are no facts, only interpretations.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Man is the cruelest animal.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: animals, cruelty, evil, man
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    Thomas Hobbes
    “Life is nasty, brutish, and short”
    ― Thomas Hobbes
    tags: life
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    Charlie Chaplin
    “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
    ― Charlie Chaplin
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    Jacques Derrida
    “To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
    ― Jacques Derrida
    tags: action, deeds, game, lying, playing, responsibility
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    Karl Popper
    “Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.”
    ― Karl Popper
    tags: science
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    Michel Foucault
    “Where there is power, there is resistance.”
    ― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
    tags: activism, leftism, power, resistance
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
    It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life, personal-responsibility
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life-experience, self-determination
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “We are our choices.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: choices
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu
    tags: class-struggle, war
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions
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    Maurice Merleau-Ponty
    “The body is our general medium for having a world.”
    ― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
    tags: body, perspective, phenomenology
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    Martin Heidegger
    “If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. ”
    ― Martin Heidegger
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    Martin Heidegger
    “Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. ”
    ― Martin Heidegger
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    Martin Heidegger
    “Everyone is the other and no one is himself.”
    ― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
    tags: being-and-time, heidegger, philosophy
    252 likes

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    Martin Heidegger
    “Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. ”
    ― Martin Heidegger
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: happiness, philosophy
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “One should use common words to say uncommon things”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: clarity, naivete, simplicity, writing
    885 likes



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