quotesophy

the good sentences, minus the 300 pages around them

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“Man conquers the world by conquering himself.”

— Zeno of Citium

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“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”

— Augustine of Hippo

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“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”

— Democritus

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“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”

— William James

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“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe… the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”

— Immanuel Kant

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“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

— Blaise Pascal

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“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

— Bertrand Russell

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“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction.”

— John Stuart Mill

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“I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.”

— Zhuangzi

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“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”

— Thomas Aquinas

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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

— Carl Jung

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“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

— Viktor Frankl

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“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”

— Albert Camus

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“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

— Buddha

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“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”

— Lao Tzu

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“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”

— Machiavelli

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"Rather fail with honour than succeed by fraud."

— Sophocles