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Quote by Omar Khayyam

“To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.”

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Omar Khayyam was a Persian philosopher, mathematician, and poet, renowned for his contributions to algebra and his philosophical works, particularly the 'Quatrains', which have had a profound influence on Western literature and thought. more

“People (a group that in my opinion has always attracted an undue amount of attention) have often been likened to snowflakes. This analogy is meant to suggest that each is unique - no two alike. This is quite patently not the case. People, even at the current rate of inflation - in fact, people especially at the current rate of inflation - are quite simply a dime a dozen. And, I hasten to add, their only similarity to snowflakes resides in their invariably and lamentable tendency to turn, after a few warm days, to slush.”

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Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.”

Men Character Shows Culture Mere Males Desirable

Book:The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth

“The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.”

Persons Past Unhappy Happy Person Unhappy Person

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself.”

Humans Generations Tasks Deluded How To Love Previous Generations

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.”

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Author:Charles Kingsley

“A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment.”

Thinking Moments Past Missing Present Moment Sacraments Thinking About The Past

Author:R. D. Laing

“Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.”

Bigs Difficult Plans Lays Starting Accomplishment

Book:Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching

“Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing.”

Turns Universe

Author:Laozi

“Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.”

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Author:Le Corbusier

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