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#1

“Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.”
― Giordano Bruno

tags: astronomy, blasphemy, burned-at-the-stake, burning, condemnation, fear, heresy, heretical, hero, inquisition, last-words, martyr, martyr-for-science, progress, science

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#2

“Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
― Giordano Bruno

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#3

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
― Baruch Spinoza

tags: education, free-thought, philosophy

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#4

“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.”
― Spinoza

tags: philosophy

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#5

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
― Baruch Spinoza

tags: philosophy

455 likes

#6

“I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.”
― Plotinus

113 likes

#7

“The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.”
― Plotinus

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#8

“The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.”
― Plotinus, The Enneads

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#9

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
― Epictetus

tags: history, humility, philosophy

1809 likes

#10

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
― Epictetus

tags: contentment, happiness, money, wealth

1333 likes

#11

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
― Epictetus

tags: philosophers, philosophy

1284 likes

#12

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ”
― Epictetus

tags: happiness, way-to-be

863 likes

#13

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
― Epictetus

746 likes

#14

“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.”
― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

tags: happiness, misery

248 likes

#15

“All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.”
― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

tags: fortune

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