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    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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    Jonathan Swift
    “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: imagination
    1926 likes

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    Jonathan Swift
    “Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: law, simile
    196 likes

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    Jonathan Swift
    “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational
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    Martin Luther
    “We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: christianity, faith, inspirational, religion
    752 likes

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    Martin Luther
    “The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: animals, dogs
    381 likes

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    Martin Luther
    “My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: inspirational, music, power-of-music
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    Martin Luther
    “True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: humility
    321 likes

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    Martin Luther
    “Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: hope, inspirational
    304 likes

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    Karl Popper
    “No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.”
    ― Karl Popper
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    Karl Popper
    “Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.”
    ― Karl Popper
    tags: science
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    Karl Popper
    “Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”
    ― Karl Popper
    tags: dogmatism, idealism, maturity, pragmatism, science, theory, wisdom
    224 likes

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    Karl Popper
    “True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”
    ― Karl R. Popper
    tags: knowledge, refusal, true-ignorance
    222 likes

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    Karl Popper
    “All life is problem solving”
    ― Karl Popper
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    Karl Popper
    “No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it”
    ― Karl Popper
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    Karl Popper
    “Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”
    ― Karl R. Popper
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    Daniel C. Dennett
    “What you can imagine depends on what you know.”
    ― Daniel Dennett
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    Daniel C. Dennett
    “You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.”
    ― Daniel Dennett
    tags: atheism, faith, religion
    127 likes

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    Daniel C. Dennett
    “There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view I hold dear.”
    ― Daniel Dennett
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    Daniel C. Dennett
    “There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.”
    ― Daniel Dennett
    tags: philosophy
    107 likes

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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
    4178 likes

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    T.S. Eliot
    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: poetry
    3562 likes

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    T.S. Eliot
    “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: evil, good-intentions, morality
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: inspirational
    469 likes

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    T.S. Eliot
    “Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: missed-chances
    513 likes

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    Thomas Hobbes
    “Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
    ― Thomas Hobbes
    tags: life-lessons, mistakes
    578 likes

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    Thomas Hobbes
    “Hell is truth seen too late.”
    ― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
    tags: hell, timing, truth
    353 likes

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    Thomas Hobbes
    “Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools. ”
    ― Thomas Hobbes
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    John Milton
    “Solitude sometimes is best society.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: companionship, privacy, solitude
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    John Milton
    “Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, lucifer, rebellion, revolt, satan
    614 likes



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