“Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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“What I took out of them was that character was measured by facing up to difficult situations and that a hero was a man who would not break even under the most trying circumstances.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“What we have found in Afghanistan confirms that, far from ending there, our war against terror is only beginning. Most of the 19 men who hijacked planes on September the 11th were trained in Afghanistan's camps, and so were tens of thousands of...”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched...”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. She encouraged me to listen carefully to country people’s sayings.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“To himself every one is an immortal: he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“The art of our necessities is strange, that can make vile things precious.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“there is not a single one of those books which does not contradict some other book; so that by the time one has read them all one does not know what to think about anything.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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