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“There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world’s religions.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Only Individuals have a sense of Responsibility”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ridendo dicere severum. (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Nietzsche contra Wagner

“It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, A Nietzsche Reader

“There are many kinds of eyes. Even the sphinx has eyes - and consequently there are many kinds of 'truths,' and consequently there is no truth”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
― Nikola Tesla

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
― Nikola Tesla

“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married”
― Virginia Woolf

“I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Pargiters

“I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.”
― Virginia Woolf

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
― Virginia Woolf

“I remember one morning...
getting up at dawn...
there was such a sense of possibility!
You know? That feeling?
And... and I remember thinking to myself:
'So this is the beginning of happiness...'
'This is where it starts!'
'And, of course, there'll always be more.'
Never occurred to me
it wasn't the beginning,
It was happiness.
It was the moment...”
― Virgínia Woolf

“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
― Franz Kafka

“The strangest of our powers
Is the courage to live
Knowing that we will die,
Knowing nothing more true.

- In the Snowy Night Woods”
― Nâzım Hikmet, Poems of Nazım Hikmet

“Seversin dünyayı doludizgin
ama o bunun farkında değildir
ayrılmak istemezsin dünyadan
ama o senden ayrılacak
yani sen elmayı seviyorsun diye
elmanın da seni sevmesi şart mı?
Yani Tahiri Zühre sevmeseydi artık
yahut hiç sevmeseydi
Tahir ne kaybederdi Tahirliğinden?”
― Nâzım Hikmet, Poems of Nazım Hikmet