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#1

“Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel. ”
― Jack London, The Star Rover

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#2

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: atheism, bible, organized-religion, religion

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#3

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence

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#4

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased

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#5

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

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#6

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion

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#7

“Călătoria pare să fie destul de lungă. Tânărul pare să se fi îmbarcat în trenul lui Auguste Compte, să fi trecut prin stația teologiei, a cărei deviză era: „Da! Crede și nu cerceta” pentru a poposi și a scormoni acum în tărâmurile metafizicii a cărei deviză este: „Nu!”, iar în depărtare se întrezărește realismul, pe al cărui frontispiciu stă scris: „Deschide ochii și întdrăznește!”.”
― Naguib Mahfouz, Palace of Desire

tags: idealism, pozitivism, realism, viața

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#8

“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
― Jean Paul Sartre

tags: freedom

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#9

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

tags: garcin, hell, people

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#10

“To be is to do - Socrates

To do is to be - Sartre

Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humor

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#11

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: freedom, life, personal-responsibility

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#12

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: loneliness, solitude

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#13

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: freedom, life-experience, self-determination

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#14

“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu

tags: class-struggle, war

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#15

“We are our choices.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: choices

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#16

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#17

“Words are loaded pistols.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#18

“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

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#19

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre , Nausea

tags: time

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#20

“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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#21

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: inspirational

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#22

“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: knowledge-books

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#23

“Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#24

“In love, one and one are one.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#25

“It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

tags: philosophy

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#26

“Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: existentialism, humanism, post-modernism

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#27

“It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: identity, love, personal-papers

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#28

“Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit and Three Other Plays

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#29

“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#30

“It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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