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Martin Heidegger Philosopher
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"Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world."

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Martin Luther Theologian
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"Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength."

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Meir Kahane Politician
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"I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than an Auschwitz that is loved by one and all"

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you."

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Plato Philosopher
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"This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related."

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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating."

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
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"It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its corruption, given birth to polytheism and to all the various superstitions of the heathen world. Reason, when obvious, prevents these corruptions: When abstruse, it keeps the principles entirely from the knowledge of the vulgar, who are alone liable to corrupt any principle or opinion."

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Confucius Philosopher
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"A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard."

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Brian Andreas Artist
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"In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love And there may be many things we forget in the days to come, But this will not be one of them."

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in the past determines what is going to happen next, and we do not see that it is exactly the other way around! What is always the source of the world is the present; the past doesn't explain a thing. The past trails behind the present like the wake of a ship and eventually disappears."

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world."

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it."

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