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#1

“There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.”
― Carl Von Clausewitz, On War

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#2

“War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.”
― Carl von Clausewitz, On War

120 likes

#3

“You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

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#4

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

34004 likes

#5

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul

7852 likes

#6

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#7

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#8

“Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: ethics, morality

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#9

“Man is the cruelest animal.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: animals, cruelty, evil, man

2726 likes

#10

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: love

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#11

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom

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#12

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
― Aristotle

tags: education

1189 likes

#13

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: introspection, solitude

2172 likes

#14

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

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#15

“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, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

3999 likes

#16

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: bernard-shaw, irish, pigs, pointlessness

1146 likes

#17

“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)

"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
— Churchill's response”
― George Bernard Shaw

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#18

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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#19

“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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#20

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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#21

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics

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#22

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”
― Confucius

tags: wisdom

517 likes

#23

“The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.”
― Confucius

tags: bold, virtue, wise

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#24

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

21397 likes

#25

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: humor, proverb

12897 likes

#26

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

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#27

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

tags: holding-back, life-lessons

1671 likes

#28

“No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

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#29

“The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.”
― Anonymous, BHAGAVAD GITA: EL CANTO DEL SEÑOR

tags: religion, wisdom

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#30

“Hell has three hates: lust, anger and greed.”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

tags: 200-bce

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