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  • #1
    Terry Pratchett
    “The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

  • #2
    Terry Pratchett
    “Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #3
    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

  • #4
    Pericles
    “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
    Pericles

  • #5
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #6
    Antony Beevor
    “I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis”
    Antony Beevor

  • #7
    Antony Beevor
    “To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make”
    Antony Beevor

  • #8
    Stanisław Jerzy Lec
    “Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?”
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  • #9
    Stanisław Jerzy Lec
    “In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.”
    Stanisław Jerzy Lec

  • #10
    George Bernard Shaw
    “[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”
    George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

  • #11
    Jean-Luc Godard
    “Je suis Marxiste, tendance Groucho.”
    Jean Luc Godard

  • #12
    Nelson Mandela
    “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
    Nelson Mandela

  • #13
    Nelson Mandela
    “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
    Nelson Mandela

  • #14
    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
    Ernest Benn

  • #15
    Galileo Galilei
    “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
    Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

  • #16
    Galileo Galilei
    “Eppur si muove.”
    Galileo Galilei

  • #17
    Galileo Galilei
    “With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.”
    Galileo Galilei

  • #18
    Isaac Newton
    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

  • #19
    “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
    Anonymous

  • #20
    John Lennon
    “Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see”
    John Lennon

  • #21
    John Cleese
    “Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a
    mistake.”
    John Cleese

  • #22
    Erno Paasilinna
    “Itseoppinut on ainoa oppinut. Muut ovat opetettuja.”
    Erno Paasilinna, Lausui alustaja, joka korosti – Kootut aforismit ja aforistiset lauseet 1967–1987

  • #23
    John Lennon
    “When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.”
    John Lennon

  • #24
    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    Albert Camus

  • #25
    Albert Camus
    “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
    Albert Camus

  • #26
    Hermann Hesse
    “It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #27
    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    Voltaire

  • #28
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #29
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #30
    Albert Camus
    “If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.”
    Albert Camus



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