“I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.”

― Confucius, Analects

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“You never realize how much you've changed until after it's happened.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“The stars poured over his sight like flaming meteors.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.”

― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“If a man is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we were to excuse a bad man on the same grounds we would be laughed at.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than...”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.”

― Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking

“If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”

― John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment

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