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“It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild

“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure”
― Oscar Wilde

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft

“Life is ours to be spent, not to
be saved.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.
Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep.
War is kind.

Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die.
The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie.

Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.”
― Stephen Crane

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

“The first duty of love is to listen.”
― Paul Tillich

“Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.”
― Paul Tillich

“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.”
― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

“The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.”
― Henry Hazlitt, Thinking as a Science

“Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows
with the ability to say no to oneself.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“There is another world, but it is in this one.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
― Joseph Fort Newton

“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Things are in the saddle,
And ride mankind.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS