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“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: happiness, philosophy

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“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

tags: attachment, death, loss, worth

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#4

“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: patriotism

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#5

“They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: arthur-schopenhauer, death, right, schopenhauer, suicide, title

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#6

“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: clarity, naivete, simplicity, writing

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#7

“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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#8

“Life is a constant process of dying.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: philosophy-of-life

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#9

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

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#10

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

tags: happiness, love

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#11

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: paraphrased, philosophy

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#12

“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: god, religion

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#13

“I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.”
― Bertrand Russell , Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

tags: babylon, belief, burden-of-proof, christian-god, egyptian, fiction, gods, hypothesis, knowledge, olympus, probability, proof, rational, reason, santa, satan, superstition

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#14

“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
― Bertrand Russell

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“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.”
― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

tags: philosophy, truth

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#16

“No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.”
― Bertrand Russell, On Education: On Education

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#17

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: inspiration, motivation

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#18

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: education, illiteracy, journalism, literature

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#19

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: writing

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#20

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: atheism, philosophy

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#21

“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
― Richard Dawkins

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“Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.

Note: Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine, who is as yet unidentified (possibly Jeremy Webb)”
― Richard Dawkins

tags: science

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“A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: children, indoctrination, religion

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#24

“Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

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#25

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#26

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

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#27

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty

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#28

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

tags: politics-language

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#29

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: conscious, rebel

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#30

“The only good human being is a dead one.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: misquote, paraphrased

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