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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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    Lawrence M. Krauss
    “Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
    ― Lawrence M. Krauss
    tags: astronomy, life, science
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    Lawrence M. Krauss
    “The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it”
    ― Lawrence Krauss
    tags: education
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
    tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “What labels me, negates me.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either - Or
    tags: poets
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: books, christopher-hitchens, humour, literature, writing
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic
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    Sam Harris
    “Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?”
    ― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
    tags: inspirational
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    Sam Harris
    “We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.”
    ― Sam Harris
    tags: agnosticism, atheism, belief, ethics, faith, humanism, religion, spirituality
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    Sam Harris
    “In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.”
    ― Sam HArris
    tags: god, morality, religion
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
    tags: life, possibilities
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: adventure, anxiety, self-discovery
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: atheism, organized-religion, paradox, religion
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
    tags: atheism, belief, blind, blind-faith, blindness, christian-faith, christian-miracle, critical-thinking, critical-thought, death-of-reason, doubt, doubt-is-sin, eternity, existence, foundation-of-belief, human-nature, intoxication, meaning, meaning-of-life, metaphor, miracle, myth, nature, origin, philosophy, purpose, purpose-of-life, reason, reflection, religious-faith, resurrection, resurrection-of-jesus, sin, sinful, thinking, thoughts, wasted-life
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    David Gilmour
    “Strangers passing in the street
    By chance two separate glances meet
    And I am you and what I see is me”
    ― Pink Floyd
    tags: psychedelic
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    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am free and that is why I am lost.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: absurd
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “The meaning of life is that it stops.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: death, life
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    Franz Kafka
    “A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

    [Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: julia-cameron, writers, writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka's The Castle
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    Franz Kafka
    “I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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