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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. - Nikos Kazantzakis

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.
Jean Baudrillard

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. - Blaise Pascal

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong
~Joseph Chilton Pearce~

All we are is dust in the wind, dude.
Ted Theodore Logan

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
~Confucius~

I think therefore I am. Descartes

The time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted time.

~Bertrand Russell~

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. - Marilyn Monroe

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness
~Aristotle~

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. - Winston Churchill

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

Life is full of questions - idiots are full of answers
~Socrates~

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing
~Socrates~

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakable desirable.
--Mark Twain

I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.- Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation” – Plato

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new
~Albert Einstein~

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. - Aldous Huxley

“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny"

~Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Michael Petroni ~

Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable - Sergio Mattarella (President of Italy since 2015)

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

~Charles M. Schulz~

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes. - David Morrissey

The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place.

--Emily Yoffe

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind

Nikola Tesla

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.

Gandhi

No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little silence, a little love, a little more humanity... just a little more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it. - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. - Blaise Pascal

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
~Ludwig van Beethoven~

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ~Maurice Freehill~

Money isn't real, George. It doesn't matter. It only seems like it does. - quote from the film "Blow"

“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”

~Socrates~

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.... - Mahatma Gandhi (food for thought)

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
~Jim Carrey~

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Leonard Nimoy

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. - Billie Jean King

It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. - Anton LaVey

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness. - Max Planck

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
- Lao Tzu -

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it"
~Albert Schweitzer~

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning. - William Westmoreland

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light"

~Plato~

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that. Break out! - Robin Williams as John Keating in Dead Poets Society

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company”

~Benjamin Franklin Wade~

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. - Blaise Pascal

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is”
~Albert Camus~

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. - Winston Churchill

“You can't do that, it makes too much sense”
~Daven Anderson~

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. - Khalil Gibran

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~Aesop

That's what the present is. It's a little unsatisfying because life is unsatisfying. - quote from the film "Midnight In Paris"

"Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end." - Bruce Lee

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. - St. Jerome

My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
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Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.' - Tristan Wilds

“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
~Alain de Botton~

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. - Aristotle Onassis

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man”
~George Bernard Shaw~

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. - Anatole France

"The yeoman’s work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest."
— Michio Kaku

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland~

Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful what can be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
~Mahatma Gandhi~

Lying is a delightful thing for it leads to the truth.

~Fyodor Dostoevsky~

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. - Blaise Pascal

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

If you ran as much as you run your mouth, you would be in great shape. - Anonymous

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. - Mitch

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. - Mitch Hedberg

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road." - Stephen Hawking

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. - Aesop

"Freedom is from within." - Frank Lloyd Wright

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. - Mason Cooley

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation"
~Plato~

to truly live one must embrace the unknown along with the uncertainy of death.and to truly die one had to of first lived.KEK.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really. - James Earl Jones

"We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship"
~Buddha~

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. - Socrates

“Don’t live your life through what ifs, live it with I knows”
~Marco Zuniga~

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." - Carl Sagan

Stress is poison. - Agavé Powers

“Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust”
~Sun Tzu~

"If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically."
-Amit Goswami

It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent. - Machiavelli

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend"
~Thomas Jefferson~

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas." - Benjamin Franklin

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love. - George Michael (RIP)

"Fear is the foundation of most governments." - John Adams

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