“Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be—and are ruined.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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“When I see the blindness and the wretchedness of man, when I regard the whole silent universe, and man without light, left to himself, and, as it were, lost in this corner of the universe, without knowing who has put him there, what he has come...”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music. Music is the best.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“But with the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Again, to make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God, Who is the God of unity and peace.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“A true man does what he will, not what he must.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic ; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world...”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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