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[philosophybits]

“The strong thinker, the man overflowing with intellectual life, naturally seeks to diffuse his ideas. There is no pleasure in thinking unless the thought is communicated to others.”

— Peter Kropotkin, Anarchist Morality

[philosophybits]

“What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?”

— Hannah Arendt, “Interview with Roger Errera”, The New York Review of Books (26 October 1978)

[nuretmen]

© Nur Uretmen

[quotemadness]

“This life hasn’t turned out quite the way I wanted it to be.”

— Unknown

[sovietpostcards]

Neva River in Leningrad, photo by Yevgeny Khaldei (1950)

[quotemadness]

“…you and I knew strange corners of life.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[philosophybits]

“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life

[morgan-phillips]

[yesterdaysprint]

The Decatur Herald, Illinois, September 16, 1929

[philosophybits]

“Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas.”

— Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education

[philosophybits]

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

— Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

[simena]

Marcel Rieder

[quotemadness]

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

— Edgar Allan Poe (via quotemadness)

[philosophybits]

“It is not the struggle of opinions that has made history so violent, but rather the struggle of belief in opinions, that is, the struggle of convictions.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

[quotemadness]

“These violent delights have violent ends.”

— William Shakespeare (via quotemadness)

[philosophybits]

“Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

[philosophybits]

“Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.”

— Bertrand Russell, Fact and Fiction