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#1

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

tags: paraphrased, philosophy

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#2

“Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

885 likes

#3

“Take it easy, but take it.”
― Woody Guthrie

tags: inspiration, philosophy

672 likes

#4

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: philosophy

1165 likes

#5

“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”
― Heinrich Heine

tags: life, philosophy, revenge, wisdom

774 likes

#6

“The menu is not the meal.”
― Alan Watts

tags: language, metaphysics, names, nominalism, philosophy, power-of-words, words

776 likes

#7

“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: life, philosophy

889 likes

#8

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
― Epictetus

tags: philosophers, philosophy

1280 likes

#9

“One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
― Sophocles

tags: philosophy

447 likes

#10

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

tags: experience, failure, metaphor, success, wisdom

3807 likes

#11

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, success

2364 likes

#12

“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”
― Joyce Brothers

tags: success

606 likes

#13

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

35265 likes

#14

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth

19794 likes

#15

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology

19849 likes

#16

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: creation, god, humor, man

6378 likes

#17

“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: humor, talking, writers

4816 likes

#18

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

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