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#1

“Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: hell, solipsism

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#2

“I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty

tags: certainty, individuality

153 likes

#3

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity

4214 likes

#4

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

9023 likes

#5

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

719 likes

#6

“Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.”
― Hannah Arendt

tags: forgiveness, history

172 likes

#7

“Yo no estudio por saber más, sino por ignorar menos”
― Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

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#8

“For those who are with greatness born
Should live not for themselves alone.”
― Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings

tags: greatness

5 likes

#9

“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. ”
― Simone Weil

tags: attachment, detachment, reality, simone-weil

371 likes

#10

“If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.”
― Simone Weil

213 likes

#11

“Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.”
― Simone Weil, Lectures on Philosophy

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#12

“Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.”
― Simone Weil, Lectures on Philosophy

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#13

“The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?”
― Angela Y. Davis

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#14

“Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.”
― Angela Davis

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#15

“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.”
― Angela Davis

168 likes

#16

“In many ways you can say that the prison serves as an institution that consolidates the state’s inability and refusal to address the most pressing social problems of this era.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

62 likes

#17

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
― Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays

tags: history, lessons

1077 likes

#18

“Dejeme decirie,
a risego de parecer ridiculo,
que el revolucionario verdadero
esta guiado por grandes sentimientos de amor.

Let me say,
at the risk of seeming ridiculous,
that the true revolutionary
is guided by great feelings of love.”
― Ernesto Guevara

tags: inspirational

34 likes

#19

“Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d'être violent et original dans vos œuvres.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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