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“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

“For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.”
― Plato, Theaetetus

“The time is out of joint—O cursèd spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!”
― William Shakespeare

“Everyone knows how useful usefulness is, but no one seems to know how useful uselessness is.”
― Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries

“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“Go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee?—This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“Therefore we call final without qualification that which is always desirable in itself and never for the sake of something else. Now such a thing happiness, above all else, is held to be.”
― Aristotle

“The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“There remained the inexplicable mass of rock. The legend tried to explain the inexplicable. As it came out of a substratum of truth it had in turn to end in the inexplicable.”
― Franz Kafka

“You cannot love, and this is why you seek
To find men vicious, or depraved, or weak
If you could search for love and persevere
The sins of other men would disappear.”
― Attar of Nishapur

“Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning.”
― Frederick Douglass

“I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears.”
― Rosa Luxemburg

“The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.”
― Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

“One cannot step twice into the same river, nor can one grasp any mortal substance in a stable condition, but it scatters and again gathers; it forms and dissolves, and approaches and departs.”
― Heraclitus