“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
— Carl Jung
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
Franz Kafka
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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
— Paulo Freire
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You haven't met yourself yet. But the advantage to meeting others in the meantime...is that one of them may present you to yourself.
Waking Life (2001)
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some wallpaper things i made with marcus aurelius quotes from “Meditations” ᯽
idk if anyone will use these but lmk if you do!
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I could hear the voices but I had no idea what they were saying
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Well time is the mightiest of all judges. It never forgets to unfold the truth when the occasion comes.
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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
Thomas Aquinas
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“The difference between the insane and the not-insane person is that the latter doesn't do or say the things he thinks.”
— Clarice Lispector
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
Emmanuel Kant
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Art no longer imitates visible things; it makes things visible.
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Cicero, Ad Familiares
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