"The thinker - and similarily the artist - who has put the best of himself into his work,
experiences an almost malicious joy as he watches the erosion of his body and spirit by time.
It is as if he were in a corner watching a thief at his safe, while knowing that it is empty,
his treasure being elsewhere."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Every human has two lives, the second starts when you realize that you only have one."
Confucius
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"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness,
then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limit."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde
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"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself."
Plato
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"An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death."
David Deutsch
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"Get two stone tablets. On one of them inscribe: problems are soluble.
On the other one inscribe: problems are inevitable."
David Deutsch
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"You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago.
You are here to create yourself, continuously."
Richard Feynman
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"We are choked with news and starved of history."
Will Durant
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"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."
Karl Popper
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"An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death."
David Deutsch
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us look at the stars."
Oscar Wilde
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"All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up."
Pablo Picasso
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"Two things fill my mind with ever increasing wonder and awe:
The starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
Immanuel Kant
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"We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets."
Karl Popper
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"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish
the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The selfish reason to be honest is to clear the mind of exhausting lies and to navigate towards people and situations where you can be completely authentic."
Naval Ravikant
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"But how do I know what to dedicate my life to?" Wrong question… a good question to ask instead is “What is something I can do now that will be both enjoyable and useful?""
David Chapman
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"But how do I know what to dedicate my life to?" Wrong question… a good question to ask instead is “What is something I can do now that will be both enjoyable and useful?""
David Chapman
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"It is easy to waste a huge amount of emotional energy trying to be special or ordinary; to while your life away in mindless conformity or unrealistic rebellion; to play the victim or fail when you attempt to take total responsibility for your world. Adopting those stance makes you miserable"
David Chapman
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"A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century"
David Hume
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"The more we delve into quantum mechanics the stranger the world becomes; appreciating this strangeness of the world, whilst still operating in that which you now consider reality, will be the foundation for shifting the current trajectory of your life from ordinary to extraordinary. It is the Tao of mixing this cosmic weirdness with the practical and physical, which will allow you to move, moment by moment, through parallel worlds to achieve your dreams"
Kevin Michel
"The closer you are to becoming history, the more interesting it gets."
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"If you believe in pessimism, take solace, you will be right. If you believe in optimism, rejoice, you may be right."
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"If you want to know what you think, write."
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"Great poetry = Deeply held belief written incredibly dense and concluded with suspense."
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"Magic is merely what we are yet to invent
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"To survive, nihilists and pessimists require wealth generated by optimistic, realistic humans employing their agency. Thus, the paradox: The more wealth created by humans, the greater the space for bad philosophy."
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"You want to live forever? Live now!"
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"Progress is qualitative. Shun quantiative goals"
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"This time we didn't burn the books. It was worse, we forgot them."