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    Nikola Tesla
    “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
    tags: invention, non-physical-phenomena, progress, science
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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    C.G. Jung
    “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    C.G. Jung
    “We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    C.G. Jung
    “You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: action, service
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    C.G. Jung
    “Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
    ― C.G. Jung
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: joy
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
    ― Rumi Jalalud-Din
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  • #10
    “You have to be odd to be number one”
    ― Dr. Suess
    tags: inspirational
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: education, illiteracy, journalism, literature
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    Immanuel Kant
    “Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
    tags: brilliance, education, genius, independent, intellect, intelligence, self-education, taught, teaching
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    Immanuel Kant
    “The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
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    Immanuel Kant
    “Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
    "Foundations of the Metaphysics of
    Morals" (1785)”
    ― Immanuel Kant
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    “Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul, be just another human soul.”
    ― Carl Jung
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    “The intellect is a chisel that you can use to tear away at the false stuff, but you're supposed to do it in the service of creating sculpture, you know? You're supposed to be bringing something out of whatever you're chiseling away at.

    If you take that chisel and just knock it all the way down through, then you end up with nothing, and that's no fun.”
    ― Alex O'Connor
    tags: intellect, skepticism, worldview
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius
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    Albert Einstein
    “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: music
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: dance, dancing, music
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: humor, laughter, life
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    Franz Kafka
    “Milena, if a million loved you, I am one of them, and if one loved you, it was me, if no one loved you then know that I am dead.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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    Bill Watterson
    “You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: change-life
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    Albert Camus
    “I was looked at, but I wasn't seen.”
    ― CAMUS ALBERT, El Extranjero
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Aldous Huxley
    “to be a fool at the right time is an art”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: de-escalating-conflict
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    William Shakespeare
    “For she had eyes and chose me.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Othello
    tags: beauty, eyes, looks, love, love-story, lovers
    560 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?”
    ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
    tags: love
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    William Shakespeare
    “See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
    O, that I were a glove upon that hand
    That I might touch that cheek!”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: desire, glove, hand-in-glove, longing, love, touch
    592 likes



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