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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my nei — Thomas Jefferson
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never t — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those — Aristotle
I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel — Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. — Alan W. Watts
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, " — Epictetus
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. — Albert Einstein
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all ot — Philip K. Dick
I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the w — Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
If you understand others you are smart.If you understand yourself you are illuminated.If you overcome others you are pow — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
belief is the death of intelligence. — Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. — Bertrand Russell
I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts. — Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. — Plato
The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination. — Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed — Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. — Woody Allen
Wisest is she who knows she does not know. — Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure — Arthur Schopenhauer