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  • #152
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The pure soul is a pure lie.”
    ― Nietzsche, Friedrich
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  • #153
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: freedom, responsibility
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  • #154
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: cry, emotions, nietzsche, scream
    111 likes

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  • #155
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
    tags: capital-punishment, death, life, right-to-die, suicide
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  • #156
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations
    tags: nietzsche, philosophy, schopenhauer-as-educator
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  • #157
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: opinions, pride, vanity
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  • #158
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: writing
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  • #159
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
    tags: conscience, herd-mentality, peer-pressure, reputation
    111 likes

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  • #160
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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  • #161
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #162
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “No artist tolerates reality.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #163
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: inspirational
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  • #164
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
    tags: existentialism, truths
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  • #165
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The one necessary thing.— A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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  • #166
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzche
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  • #167
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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  • #168
    Woody Allen
    “I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: existentialism, humor, uncertainty
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  • #169
    Albert Camus
    “Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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  • #170
    Albert Camus
    “There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: existentialism, passion, struggle
    886 likes

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  • #171
    Umberto Eco
    “I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
    ― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
    tags: existentialism
    733 likes

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  • #172
    Albert Camus
    “I rebel; therefore I exist.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: existentialism, rebel
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  • #173
    Anton Chekhov
    “The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
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  • #174
    Albert Camus
    “The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: existentialism, meaning-of-life, suicide, witty
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  • #175
    Albert Camus
    “If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Rebel
    tags: existentialism, nihilism, philosphy
    393 likes

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  • #176
    Ernest Becker
    “The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”
    ― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
    tags: art, creativity, existentialism, humor, psychosis
    444 likes

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  • #177
    Saul Bellow
    “One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.”
    ― Saul Bellow, Herzog
    tags: existentialism, psychology, true-to-life
    224 likes

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  • #178
    Hermann Hesse
    “I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian
    tags: existential, existentialism, humble, humility, self-loathing, self-realization
    352 likes

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  • #179
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: existentialism, mirror, nabokov
    217 likes

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  • #180
    Noah Cicero
    “When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.”
    ― Noah Cicero, The Condemned
    tags: existentialism, pain, screaming, suffering
    136 likes

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  • #181
    Albert Camus
    “This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: existentialism
    235 likes



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