"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."

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“The day of your birth is one day’s advance towards the grave.”

“All the opinions of the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end.”

“Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.”

“He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.”

“C'est ce de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.”

“We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, which is the cause that what we believe we do not believe, and cannot disengage ourselves from what we condemn.”

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"Everything exists; nothing exists. Either formula affords a like serenity. The man of anxiety, to his misfortune, remains between them, trembling and perplexed, forever at the mercy of a nuance, incap…"

— Emil Cioran

Philosophy1911–1995

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".. under a new banner.. .. change the means of battle with thought, content, and logic.. ..advance Alogism after Futurism."

— Kazimir Malevich

Art1879–1935

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"It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings."

— Rollo May

Philosophy1909–1994

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"I live and work with three basic assumptions, 1) There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman. 2) Worldwide, half of all brains are in women. 3) We all n…"

— Vera Rubin

Science1928–2016

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