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#1

“Sagen, was man denkt. Und vorher was gedacht haben.”
― Harry Rowohlt

tags: motto

#2

“Unter Antinomien nicht zusammenbrechen, das ist unsere Lebensaufgabe.”
― Arthur Schnitzler, Aphorismen und Betrachtungen

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#3

“How can one fade out in peace, carrying vast ignorance into a state of total ignorance?”
― Anthony Burgess, You've Had Your Time: Second Part of the Confessions

tags: educational, theological

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#4

“Last week, for the first time, I read Herman Melville's ''Moby Dick.'' It really amazed me by its badness.”
― H.L. Mencken

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#5

“The day broke gray and dull.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

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#6

“With increasing frequency in recent times, people have confused privileges with rights, objectivity with subjectivity, wishing with willing, wanting with needing, price with value, affluence with fulfillment, reality with appearance, and sameness with equality. Not to mention dis-ease with disease.”
― Lou Marinoff , The Big Questions: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life

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#7

“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man.”
― Anthony Trollope

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#8

“Um Humanwissenschaften zu betreiben, genügt es nicht, Kriminalromane zu lesen, als ob sie Parmenides wären, man muß auch Parmenides lesen, als ob er ein Kriminalroman wäre.”
― Umberto Eco

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#9

“One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: dickens, uncle-tom-s-cabin, victorian, wilde, witty

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#10

“This is the best of all possible worlds.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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#11

“When he reads Kierkegaard, he is not moved by what he reads, he is moved by himself reading Kierkegaard–but he is blissfully unaware of it.”
― Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation

tags: literature

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#12

“Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?”
― Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir

tags: asimov, humor, rebuttal, religion, zealots

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#13

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, literature, on-fiction

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#14

“Escapism isn't freedom”
― The Pop Group

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#15

“Nuff said!”
― Stan Lee

tags: comics, inspirational, marvel, marvel-comics, stan-lee

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#16

“It's important to remember that Christianity is a diverse religion, and different Christians may have different beliefs and political ideologies, and interpret the values of love, compassion, empathy, humility, and justice in different ways.”
― ChatGPT

tags: donald-trump, religion, tolerance

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#17

“A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.”
― Monty Python's Flying Circus

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#18

“The clarity is devastating. But where is the ambiguity?”
― Monty Python

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#19

“[the Trojan War] was directed by hallucinations. And the soldiers who were so directed were not at all like us. They were noble automatons who knew not what they did.”
― Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

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#20

“Memory is the medium of the must-have-been.”
― Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

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#21

“All of these concrete metaphors increase enormously our powers of perception of the world about us and our understanding of it, and literally create new objects. Indeed, language is an organ of perception, not simply a means of communication.”
― Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

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#22

“In all the world there is nothing so curious and so interesting and so beautiful as truth.”
― Agatha Christie, Three Act Tragedy

tags: truth

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#23

“It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.”
― Julian Huxley

tags: matter, origin-of-the-universe, philosophy, science, something-from-nothing, space

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#24

“Hume confessed to having philosophized for fame, as Michelangelo confessed to having painted for money.”
― Brand Blanshard, Nature of Thought

tags: philosophy

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#25

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, politics, predictions, voter, voting

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#26

“Definitions are very dreadful things: they do the two things that most men, especially comfortable men, cannot endure. They fight; and they fight fair.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Utopia of Usurers

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