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“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. Thats where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.”
“A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of...”
“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”
“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
“it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.”
“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; ...”
“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 ab...”
“There isnt always an explanation for everything.”
“Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.”
“If an angelic being fell from the sky and tried to live in this world of ours I think even they would commit many wrongs.”
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
“Philosophy can make people sick.”
“I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen”
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
“Plato was a bore.”
“Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as ...”
“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, ...”
“Things always become obvious after the fact”
“The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?”
“This inhuman place makes human monsters.”
