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“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

— James Baldwin, The Cross of Redemption (via quotespile)

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“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“One seeks a midwife for his thoughts, another someone to whom he can be a midwife: thus originates a good conversation.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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“When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.”

— Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World (via quotespile)

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“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”

— Oscar Wilde, “Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young”

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“It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks, 1914-1916

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“The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.”

— George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life

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“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”

— José Ortega y Gasset, Man and Crisis

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“Common sense is not too common.”

— Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique

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“Every day brings with it a fresh batch of work, and a man throws himself into his bed late at night without having completed what he had expected to do; then in the morning he hurries to the unfinished task of the previous day. Life goes, and there is no time left to think, no time to consider the direction that one’s life is taking.”

— Peter Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist

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“It’s the pursuit of these things, and your attempts to avoid them, that leave you in such turmoil. And yet they aren’t seeking you out; you are the one seeking them. Suspend judgment about them. And at once they will lie still, and you will be freed from fleeing and pursuing.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (11.11)

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“The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.”

— Oscar Wilde, “Preface”, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“A man cannot search either for what he knows or for what he does not know… He cannot search for what he knows — since he knows it, there is no need to search — nor for what he does not know, for he does not know what to look for.”

— Plato, Meno

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“We ought not to choose every pleasure, but that which tends to something good.”

— Epictetus, Fragments

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