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#1

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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#2

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#3

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

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#4

“Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see relationships between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women - and absurd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships.”
― John Fowles The Magus

tags: compassion, gender-identity, men, war, women

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#5

“There had always been a conflict in me between mystery and meaning. I had pursued tha latter, worshipped the latter as a doctor. As a socialist and rationalist. But then I saw that the attempt to scientize reality, to name it and categorize it and vivisect it out of existence, was like trying to remove the air from the atmosphere. In the creating of the vacuum it was the experimenter who died, because he was inside the vacuum.”
― John Fowles The Magus

tags: faith, reality, science

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#6

“The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.”
― John Fowles

tags: beautiful-prose, description, nature

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#7

“The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed."

"I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."

"You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

tags: betrayal, hitler, tragedy, war

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#8

“Nimeni n-are drept asupra a nimic, decât asupra muncii braţelor sau a minţii lui.”
― Marin Preda, Moromeții I

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#9

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints

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#10

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

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#11

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain

tags: living, world

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#12

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
― Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle

tags: government, kidding, misattributed-mark-twain, stupidity

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#13

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

tags: history

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#14

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance

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#15

“It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves”
― Slavoj Žižek, Living in the End Times

tags: culture-critique, philosophy

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#16

“Liberal attitudes towards the other are characterized both by respect for otherness, openness to it, and an obsessive fear of harassment. In short, the other is welcomed insofar as its presence is not intrusive, insofar as it is not really the other. Tolerance thus coincides with its opposite. My duty to be tolerant towards the other effectively means that I should not get too close to him or her, not intrude into his space—in short, that I should respect his intolerance towards my over-proximity. This is increasingly emerging as the central human right of advanced capitalist society: the right not to be ‘harassed’, that is, to be kept at a safe distance from others.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Against Human Rights

tags: contemporary-society, freedom, the-other

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#17

“The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims.”
― Slavoj Žižek

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#18

“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long-lasting light bulbs—whatever—just so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game's outcome.”
― Slavoj Žižek

tags: 2010, 2010-eruptions-eyjafjallajokul, 2010-fifa-world-cup, catastrophe, environment, environmentalism, fatalism, fate, football, global-warming, guilt, impotence, organic-food, paper-recycling, reassurance, recycling, television

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#19

“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.”
― Alexander Pope

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#20

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

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#21

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics

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#22

“Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Bhagavad-gita

tags: eastern-philosophy, hindu, inspirational, religious, spirituality

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#23

“Matter is a medium of communication between minds, and everything that exists in the mind can also exist in the body. Furthermore, the body—being the expression of a mental state is developed as a manifestation of the mind.”
― Ashish Dalela, Six Causes: The Vedic Theory of Creation

tags: hinduism, philosophy-of-religion, prana, science-and-religion, yoga

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#24

“...there is much more to matter than modern science currently would like to acknowledge. By developing insights about the observer, we can describe matter in a new way.”
― Ashish Dalela, Sankhya and Science: Applications of Vedic Philosophy to Modern Science

tags: consciousness, science-and-religion

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#25

“A theory of reality must not only explain reality, but also knowledge about that reality because knowing reality is part of reality.”
― Ashish Dalela, Quantum Meaning: A Semantic Interpretation of Quantum Theory

tags: linguistics, quantum-mechanics, quantum-physics, quantum-theory, science-of-mind, semantics

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#26

“The Vedic viewpoint presents a type of linguistic realism in which reality is the 'text' which is being processed by the observer. Reality can also be modified by adding text to it similar to how a programmer programs a computer by inputting a computer program.”
― Ashish Dalela, Is the Apple Really Red?: 10 Essays on Science and Religion

tags: hinduism, philosophy-of-language, philosophy-of-mind, philosophy-of-religion, science-and-religion, science-of-mind

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#27

“A universe of classical particles is devoid of knowledge because the universe can only be itself and not a representation of something else. If the universe was only composed of classical particles, then there would only be physical properties but no meanings. The idea that we can have information about an object without becoming that object is central to all knowledge.”
― Ashish Dalela, Quantum Meaning: A Semantic Interpretation of Quantum Theory

tags: linguistics, philosophy-of-language, philosophy-of-science, quantum-mechanics, quantum-physics, quantum-reality, quantum-theory, semantics

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#28

“...concepts have three fundamental properties—contextuality, intentionality, and abstraction—which independent things do not. To produce a mental world from the physical world, the physical world must first explain how contextuality, intentionality, and abstraction can arise.”
― Ashish Dalela, Uncommon Wisdom: Fault Lines in the Foundations of Atheism

tags: atheism, mind-body-connection, religion-and-philoshophy, soul

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#29

“...quantum problems unseat many classical ideas about matter, causality, and change that biologists use, and that disruption in turn entails radical revisions to the ideas about the mechanism in evolution, in ways we don't yet acknowledge.”
― Ashish Dalela, Signs of Life: A Semantic Critique of Evolutionary Theory

tags: evolution, philosophy, philosophy-of-science, physics

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#30

“...every physicist knows that the laws of physics can be used to build a gun or a bicycle; physics does not dictate a specific use for its laws. To that extent, it should be obvious that the laws of physics are incomplete in predicting everything that occurs in nature
—from Moral Materialism”
― Ashish Dalela

tags: philosophy-of-science, physics

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