” Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)
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Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)
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Sarah Margaret Fuller, author (1810-1850)
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” A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. – Sarah Margaret Fuller, author (1810-1850)
John Keats, poet (1795-1821)
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” Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. ” – John Keats, poet (1795-1821)
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS, PHILOSOPHER AND WRITER (121-180)
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“A Persons Aspirations–A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Remember this — very little is needed to make a happy life.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” [...]
Spinoza
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” Don’t be indignant, don’t criticize, don’t judge. Try to understand. ” – Spinoza
Otto von Bismarck
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” Fools you are… who say you like to learn from your mistakes… I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others and avoid the cost of my own. – Otto von Bismarck
C. Fuentes
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“Myth is a past with a future, exercising itself in the present.” – C. Fuentes
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
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“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true.” – James Branch Cabell
QUOTES FROM VARIOUS RELIGIONS
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“If you leave the Christian Bible outside, eventually the wind and the rain will destroy it. My bible IS the wind and the rain.” – This quote is attributed to an unnamed Native American woman
Jorge Luis Borges
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“Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses, and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.” - Jorge Luis Borges