"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something". Plato

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“There’s a kind of sadness that arises when you know too much, when you see the world as it really is.rnIt is sadness to understand that life is not a great adventure, but a series of small and ...

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Change is the only constant—this truth, as Heraclitus put it, is both liberating and daunting. Life, in all its unpredic...

Immanuel Kant - The Categorical Imperative.

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What is the underlying principle of being?

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When Diogenes of Sinope "threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough," he wasn't just re...

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It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even...

The quote "Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive," attributed to Seneca, emphasizes the vital role t...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a 1962 novel by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The story provides a star...

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"It is when we ...

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"Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery at the opposite pole."...

"Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water." – Anatole France

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ter a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, rnAnd you learn that love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't mean security, rnAnd you begin to learn...

People hate because they didn't/don't feel enough love.

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