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  • #181
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • #182
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

  • #183
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

  • #184
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

  • #185
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • #186
    Victor Hugo
    “To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #187
    Thucydides
    “We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.”
    Thucydides, The Best of Thucydides: Fifteen Extracts from Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War"

  • #188
    Thucydides
    “A man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.”
    Thucydides, How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy

  • #189
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #190
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #191
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works

  • #192
    “The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.”
    Soren Kierkegaard

  • #193
    Epicurus
    “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
    Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
    Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
    Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
    Epicurus

  • #194
    Bruce Lee
    “If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.”
    Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

  • #195
    W.B. Yeats
    “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
    W.B. Yeats

  • #196
    Lao Tzu
    “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #197
    William Blake
    “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
    William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

  • #198
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

  • #199
    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #200
    Albert Camus
    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
    Albert Camus

  • #201
    Albert Camus
    “Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.”
    Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

  • #202
    “You will never see an eagle of distinction flying low with pigeons of mediocrity.”
    Onyi Anyado

  • #203
    Albert Camus
    “The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.”
    Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

  • #204
    Albert Camus
    “To remain silent is to give the impression that one has no opinions, that one wants nothing, and in certain cases it really amounts to wanting nothing.”
    Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

  • #205
    Albert Camus
    “From the moment that man believes neither in God nor in immortal life, he becomes 'responsible for everything alive, for everything that, born of suffering, is condemned to suffer from life.' It is he, and he alone, who must discover law and order. Then the time of exile begins, the endless search for justification, the aimless nostalgia, 'the most painful, the most heartbreaking question, that of the heart which asks itself: where can I feel at home?”
    Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

  • #206
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #207
    Lord Byron
    “Don Juan is supernatural.”
    Lord Byron, Don Juan

  • #208
    Lord Byron
    “In secret we met -
    In silence I grieve,
    That thy heart could forget,
    Thy spirit deceive.
    If I should meet thee
    After long years,
    How should I greet thee? -
    With silence and tears”
    Lord Byron

  • #209
    Lord Byron
    “There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.”
    Lord Byron

  • #210
    Lord Byron
    “The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
    Lord Byron



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