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“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil. Each believes that when he dies he is going to heaven. Each believes that if he could kill the other, his path to paradise in the next world would be even swifter. The delusional "next world" is welcome to both of them. This world would be a much better place without either of them. ”
― Richard Dawkins

“War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
― Anonymous

“I tried to believe that there is a God, who created each of us in His own image and likeness, loves us very much, and keeps a close eye on things. I really tried to believe that, but I gotta tell you, the longer you live, the more you look around, the more you realize, something is fucked up.”
― George Carlin

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

“It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.”
― Bertrand Russell

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

“According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people.
In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing half.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...”
― Voltaire

“Paradise is where I am”
― Voltaire

“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”
― Spinoza

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
― Aristotle

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle