comradewisdom

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I'm insightful, so far as I am deeply blind.

Winston

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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Willy Wanka

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Hopes are the prayers of godless men.

Winston

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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Albert Camus

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Defeat is the corpse we stomp upon, and wherefrom we reach victory.

Winston

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I don't trust anyone who never cries—that's my philosophy.

Capt. Suberoa Zinnerman, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn

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They who've not bled love nothing, and not loved have yet to live.

Winston

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Nietzsche had, in so many words, a crash course in the problem of evil at the age of five. A horrific and meaningless thing happening to a good person, with seemingly no justification even possible.

Untimely Reflections, The Nietzsche Podcast

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All for freedom and for pleasure, nothing ever lasts forever. All men want to rule the world.

Tears for Fears

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A word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases — which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal. Every concept arises from the equation of unequal things. Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept "leaf" is formed by arbitrarily discarding these individual differences and by forgetting the distinguishing aspects.

Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

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"Violence never solved anything," is a statement uttered by cowards and predators.

Luigi, CEO Silencer

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Real darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart.

Disco Elysium

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A single fate is one book in a library of illimitable futures. You read only one. Do you not see that you chose this? You chose to be fate's prisoner. Had you believed in your own agency, none of this would have come to pass. You made this happen. You chose to be the way you are: trapped, manipulated. Insane.

The Man-Emperor of Mankind, to Konrad Curze

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...when every equation was solved, all that remained were fields of dreamless solitude. There is no prize to perfection, only an end to pursuit.

Viktor, Arcane (s2,e9)

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We build our own prisons. Bars forged of oaths, codes, commitments; Walls of self-doubt and accepted limitations. We inhabit these cells—these identities—and call them "us."

Silco, Arcane (s2/e8)

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...if you really love a woman or a man, you don't idealize him or her. Love means that you accept a person with all its failures, stupidities, ugly points and nonetheless the person's absolute for you: everything that makes life worth living. You see perfection in imperfection itself. And that's how we should learn to love the world. True ecologists love all this: *points to piles of trash*

Slavoj Žižek, Examined Life (2008)

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"If you have reasons to love someone, you don't love them.

Slavoj Žižek