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#1

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
― Socrates

tags: philosophy

2162 likes

#2

“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
― Karl Marx

tags: misattributed

600 likes

#3

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
― Karl Marx

tags: duopoly, oppression, politics, representation, repression, society

1470 likes

#4

“Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

tags: argumentation, debate

151 likes

#5

“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”
― Karl Marx

168 likes

#6

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

15399 likes

#7

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
― Aristotle, Metaphysics

tags: wisdom

9041 likes

#8

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

7237 likes

#9

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

3093 likes

#10

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder

2008 likes

#11

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
― Socrates

tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship

1588 likes

#12

“It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.”
― Socrates

83 likes

#13

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
― Socrates

tags: avarice, contentment, gluttony, greed

1316 likes

#14

“It is only in death that we are truly cured of the 'sickness' of life.”
― Socrates

12 likes

#15

“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”
― Socrates

tags: love

183 likes

#16

“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.”
― Jeremy Binns

118 likes

#17

“The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.”
― Socrates

107 likes

#18

“The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. ”
― Socrates

176 likes

#19

“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”
― Socrates

228 likes

#20

“There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.”
― Socrates

58 likes

#21

“I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.”
― Socrates

99 likes

#22

“Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.”
― Socrates

tags: agriculture, architecture, grain, grain-elevators

19 likes

#23

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
― Socrates

tags: contentment, happiness

169 likes

#24

“Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.”
― Socrates

29 likes

#25

“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

tags: fate

391 likes

#26

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
― Aristotle

278 likes

#27

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
― Aristotle

tags: followship, leadership

412 likes

#28

“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something”
― Aristotle

283 likes

#29

“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.”
― Aristotle

tags: inspirational

245 likes

#30

“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.”
― Aristotle

tags: religion-gods

86 likes

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