“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

“Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.”

― André Malraux, Man's Fate

“see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Me miserable! which way shall I flyInfinite wrath, and infinite despair?Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell;And, in the lowest deep, a lower deepStill threatening to devour me opens wide,To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Absence is to love as wind to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.”

― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

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