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#1

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

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#2

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
― William James

tags: attributed, honesty, integrity, philosophy, wisdom

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#3

“No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.”
― George Carlin, Brain Droppings

tags: humor, philosophy

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#4

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

tags: insanity, madness, nationalism, philosophy

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#5

“I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.”
― Graham Parke, Unspent Time

tags: humor, philosophy, weird

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#6

“You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: life, philosophy, sister

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#7

“Don't think, but look! (PI 66)”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: carpe-diem, philosophy, wittgenstein

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#8

“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: black-cat, blind, cat, funny, humor, joke, lie, lies, looking, man, metaphysics, misattributed-h-l-mencken, philosopher, philosophy, religion, search, theologian, theology, untruth, untruthful, wishful-thinking

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#9

“Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”
― J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

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#10

“It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden & Resistance to Civil Government

tags: philosophy

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#11

“There is nothing
prettier in the
whole wide world
than a girl
in love
with every breath she takes.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild

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#12

“All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
― Franz Kafka

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