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“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in the life of his "normal" contemporaries. Not rarely will he suffer from neurosis that results from the situation of a sane man living in an insane society, rather than that of the more conventional neurosis of a sick man trying to adapt himself to a sick society. In the process of going further in his analysis, i.e. of growing to greater independence and productivity,his neurotic symptoms will cure themselves.”
― Erich fromm, The Art of Being

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
― André Malraux

“İktidar hayatı hedef aldığında hayat iktidara direniş olur.”
― Gilles Deleuze

“A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.”
― Gilles Deleuze

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Oysa bizim bütün güzelliğimiz, yaşadıklarımızla düşündüklerimiz arasındaki acıklı çelişkinin yansımalarından ibaretti.”
― Oğuz Atay

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“8716Fakat okurken zihnimiz aslında başka birisinin düşüncelerinin oyun alanından başka birşey değildir,ve sonunda onlar bizden ayrılır,geriye kalan nedir?Ve dolayısıyla öyle olur ki çok fazla-yani neredeyse bütün gün okuyan ve arada düşünmeksizin,eğlence yahut meşgaleyle kendini eğlendiren kimse,yavaş yavaş kendi düşünme yeteneğini kaybeder,tıpkı at üstünden inmeyen bir adamın sonunda yürümeyi unutması gibi.”
― Arthur Schopenhaur

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

“Bütün budalaların başına gelen en büyük belafikirlerle ilgilenmemeleridir,ve cansıkıntısından kurtulmak için sürekli olarak gerçekliklere ihtiyaç duymalarıdır.Fakat gerçeklikler ya tatmin edicilikten uzak ya da tehlikelerle doludur; üstelik ilginç olmaktan çıktıklarında yorucu hale gelirler.Fakat düşünce dünyası sınırsız,zararsız ve sakindir.”
― Arthur Schopenhaur

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”
― Julio Cortázar

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.”
― Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

“The art of not experiencing feelings. A child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully, understands her, and supports her. If that person is missing, if the child must risk losing the mother's love of her substitute in order to feel, then she will repress emotions.”
― Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

“In order to become whole we must try, in a long process, to discover our own personal truth, a truth that may cause pain before giving us a new sphere of freedom. If we choose instead to content ourselves with intellectual “wisdom,” we will remain in the sphere of illusion and self-deception.”
― Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

“Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

“The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.”
― Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel