“Take note, take note, O world, to be direct and honest is not safe.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

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“So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that...”

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself any more. It’s hard to put it into words, but I guess it’s as if I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

“I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“And for morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite—that is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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