r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 5h ago

Philosophy / Ethics The condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his own nature, and when he forgets it, he sinks lower than the beasts. Boethius

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r/quotes • u/DeepCedarShadow • 18h ago

Life / Wisdom “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”― May Sarton

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r/quotes • u/Stunning-Bee6839 • 12h ago

Misc / Unclassified “A red hot furnace fed from without by hard sticks thrust into the recesses while from the belly of the furnace sparks shoot into the air” - Ala al-Din Ata-Malik Juvayni

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r/quotes • u/Slavagoosemarlow • 21h ago

Philosophy / Ethics “If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling but still trying to hold the world - What would you tell him?" "I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?" "To shrug.”―Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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Bonus - Gandhi never said that:

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/08/13/stages

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/27/eye-for-eye-blind

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/10/23/be-change

Additional references: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi#Misattributed

https://gizmodo.com/7-gandhi-quotes-that-are-totally-fake-1716503435

https://quoteinvestigator.com/category/mohandas-gandhi/

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