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You cannot step twice into the same river.
Heraclitus535–470 BCFragment 91
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012The Meadow (1947), originally a radio play for the World Security Workshop
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986“Ibn-Hakim Al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth”, in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Chance and chance alone has a message for us… Only chance can speak to us.
Milan Kundera1929–2023The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Pt. 2, ch. 9
- Luck
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect.
Franz Kafka1883–1924The Metamorphosis (1915), First lines
I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.
Timothy Leary1920–1996Chaos and Cyber Culture (1994)
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
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- Nature
With rebellion, awareness is born.
Albert Camus1913–1960The Rebel (1951), Part 1: The Rebel
The only possible society is oneself.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900An Ideal Husband (1895), Act III
The ego is not master in its own house.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis (1917)
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Voltaire1694–1778Le Mondain (1736)
Change is one thing, progress is another.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Unpopular Essays (1950)
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It is best to bear what cannot be changed.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 107, 9
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Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and Originality
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Thoughts on various subjects (Further thoughts on various subjects) (1745)