“But what then am I? A thing which thinks. What is a thing which thinks? It is a thing which doubts, understands, conceives, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, which also imagines and feels.”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

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“There is a way out of a forest, there is none out of a cloister; a man is free in the forest but he is a slave in the cloister. It may well be that greater strength of character is needed for standing up to solitude than to poverty, for if...”

― Denis Diderot, The Nun

“Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something deep inside — a desire, a dream, and a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”

― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in time alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, for space has no before, after, or now, is first established through matter.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit, to choose our better history, to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation, the God given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all...”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“It is that our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.”

― Linus Torvalds,

“But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!...”

― Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days

“For they are the moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all...”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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