Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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What is now common to all men is a mere abstract universal, an H.C.F. Highest Common Factor, and Man's conquest of himself means simply the rule of the Conditioners over the conditioned human material, the world of post-humanity which, some knowingly and some unknowingly, nearly all men in all nations are at present labouring to produce.
C. S. Lewis
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'I don't... I don't care,' he said softly to his reflection. 'I have a job to do. It doesn't matter what I have become. It doesn't matter what I look like.'
Garth Nix
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Above the mists on Hatheg-Kla, earth's gods sometimes dance reminiscently; for they know they are safe, and love to come from unknown Kadath in ships of clouds and play in the olden way, as they did when earth was new and men not given to the climbing of inaccessible places.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child.
Alexander Pope
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
Edward Abbey
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First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.
Cory Booker
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Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.
Blaise Pascal
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I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.”
She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying".
Rumi
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Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.
John Ruskin
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If I had to give you one piece of advice, it would be this: don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions.
Paulo Coelho
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And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe