A Child's Play

philosophybits:

“We are so fond of being out among Nature, because it has no opinions about us.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

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notesfromtheundergroundman:

“The world says: “You have needs – satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don’t hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more.” This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via notesfromtheundergroundman)

wordsnquotes:

“Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”

— Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (via wnq-anonymous)

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books-n-quotes:

“Our current mental-hygiene philosophy stresses the idea that people ought to be happy, that unhappiness is a symptom of maladjustment. Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.”

— Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (via books-n-quotes)

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blueh3nd:

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

— Carl Jung (via amortizing)

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odinstower:

“Each man must at one time die. No one may escape dying that once, and it is my counsel that we not flee, but for our own part act the bravest.”

—Saga of the Volsungs

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dangerous-thought:

“The evil was not in bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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books-n-quotes:

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”

— Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
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al-sultana94:

“عليك بالصدق وإن قتلك”

— عمر ابن الخطاب رضي الله عنه
Translation:
“Always be truthful, even if it kills you” (via thevintagearab)

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