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#1

“There is but one power to which I can yield a heart felt obedience, the decision of my own understanding, the dictate of my own conscience”
― William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness

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“...a timid reverence for the decisions of our ancestors, as if it were the nature of the mind always too degenerate and never to advance.”
― William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness

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#3

“Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

tags: happiness, memory

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#4

“Disobedience... is man's original virtue.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#5

“The meaningless absurdity of life is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#6

“I read The Fountainhead when I was twenty. About as loathsome a book as I've ever read.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

tags: humor

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#7

“It's a serious age, eighty eight. If you turn the numbers on their side, it's two infinities on top of each other.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

tags: ageing, humor

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#8

“There are two places: home, away. I lack a map that shows me anywhere but those.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

tags: thoughtful

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#9

“As for ideology, the hell with it. All of it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

tags: humor, thoughtful

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#10

“Imagination, the enemy of men, the father of all terrors.”
― Joseph Conrad

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#11

“That agony is our triumph.”
― Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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#12

“Every party has its criminals and its fools, because every party has its men.”
― Octave Mirbeau

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#13

“The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.”
― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature

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#14

“Laborare est orare (to work is to pray)”
― Anonymous

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#15

“Why want another universe if this one has dogs?”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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#16

“No religion has ever yet owed it's prevalence to "apodictic certainty.”
― William James

tags: atheism, belief, faith, religion

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#17

“When I walk the fields I am oppressed now and then with an innate feeling that everything I see has a meaning, if I could but understand it.”
― Charles Kingsley

tags: life, meaning

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#18

“...[To] admit ones liability to correction is one thing, [but] to embark upon a sea of wanton doubt is another.”
― William James

tags: belief, confidence, doubt, faith, self-esteem, wisdom

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#19

“Between his own and Jehovah's enemies, a David knows no difference.”
― William James

tags: bigotry, faith, racism, religion, xenophobia, zealotry

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#20

“mankind’s common instinct for reality…has always held the world to be essentially a theater for heroism.”
― William James

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#21

“Do not strive to uncover answers: they cannot be given you because you have not been able to live them.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: experience, wisdom

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#22

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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