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“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“A disciplined mind invites true joy.”
― Yongey Mingyur, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.”
― Shunryu Suzuki

“Life is precious to us because it is ephemeral.”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The Genius Of The Crowd

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day

and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love

beware the preachers
beware the knowers
beware those who are always reading books
beware those who either detest poverty
or are proud of it
beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average

but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world
not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect

like a shining diamond
like a knife
like a mountain
like a tiger
like hemlock

their finest art”
― Charles Bukowski

“Soon, you will have forgotten everything.
Soon, everybody will have forgotten you.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
― Mason Cooley

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

“We're all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it "reality".”
― Anil Seth

“Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.”
― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World