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"Plato said that 'music is a moral law, it gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.'"
"Everything is poison, nothing is poisoned. Use something in a positive way and it's good for you; use it in a negative way and it will kill you." - Expert
"Lucifer, the Light Bearer, is it he who bears the light." - Albert Pike
"As Mahatma Gandhi is attributed as putting it: 'an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.'"
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness; you have to catch it yourself." - Benjamin Franklin
"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates
"Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have." - Siddhartha (Buddha)
"When you sacrifice Liberty for security, you deserve neither." - Benjamin Franklin
"Your freedom to swing your fist ends where the tip of my nose begins."
"You will own nothing and you will be happy: sounds like the Transcendence of private property from Marx."
"The price of freedom in the universe is unity, self-sufficiency, and discretion."
"My rule is there's nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do provided it is physically possible." - Freeman Dyson
"We're creating a new world without time, without God." - Adam
"All that it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing."
"Man know thyself and thou shalt know the universe and God." - Pythagoras, you know, that triangle dude.
"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls." - Aesop
"All perceptible matter comes from a primary substance or tenuity but beyond concept filling all space, the Akasha." - Nikolai Tesla
"The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." - Ray McGovern
"Truth as Buddha has always said, the Sun, the moon, and the truth will always rise."
"If it's not true, don't say it." - "Literally in the words of Marcus Aurelius."
"There's more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, that are dreamt of in your philosophy."
"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people." - Socrates
"Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere, some bull [__] like that."
"Man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth in mind." - Charles Darwin
"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Nietzsche
"To drive the darkness away, it seems, the light will have to perish with it!" - Lord Hoth
"Friendship is essentially a partnership." - Aristotle
"Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Ben
"When Jordan Peterson... that gave purpose to people." - Search for Meaning and Purpose
"Just remember that evil cleanses people, evil brings good to sinners." - Steve
"If Liberty means anything, it's the right to tell people that which they do not want to hear." - George Orwell
"You become what you think about all day long." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The quality of our thoughts determines the quality of our lives." - Marcus Aurelius
"Is there anything more awesome than what you just said? Well, I am truly star stuff as Carl Sagan once said."
"Do you know the expression 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder'?"
"The truth will set you free." - "The truth will set you free, you couldn't have said it better Ron, absolutely right."
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
"As the Beatles said, 'All you need is love.'"
"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." - Albert Einstein
"We have to accept the reality that we dwell together. As is the war games quote appropriate, 'It's like the only winning move, Doctor Falken, is not to play.' Now I think you gotta play."
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered." - Galileo
"Needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, boy. Oh damn, yeah, I remember watching this for the first time."
"If you give up a little freedom for a bit of safety, you don't deserve either."
"Hope always deceives us when it becomes a substitute for action." - Marty Rubin
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
"Ignorance is bliss, in other words, norse and splint."
"Religion activates you in this life to improve things for yourself and for others." - Tocqueville
"Let us love the earth, let us be true to the earth. Forget are the world's Christians, Nietzsche wants to say."
"When Neo says, 'How could the kid bend the spoon,' and the Oracle says, 'Because the kid realizes that there is no spoon.'"
"The mastery of nature is achieved through measure and number." - Rene Descartes
"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." - Thomas Jefferson
"Time is a regular progression of instance like sands through an hourglass." - Medivh
"It's about saving what you love, not killing what you hate."
"If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person."
"Those who will sacrifice liberty for a little bit of temporary safety will deserve neither and get neither."
"An unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates
"I may not agree with what you say but I shall defend to the death your right to say it."
"Making no decision is still a decision." - Kim West
"Paradise isn't the Palace of Versailles: It's the Garden of Eden." - "How little is really needed to live luxuriously."
"Those who would give up essential rights to purchase a little temporary safety will possess neither rights nor safety."
"The dead are alive. Let's not let the alive be dead." - Kevin Eubanks
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see light." - Aristotle
"The philosopher Kant once called music the quickening art, and Henry is being quickened, he is being brought to life."
"There is no end to suffering for our cities and none, I suspect, for the human race unless either philosophers become kings in our cities or those now called kings and rulers become true philosophers."
"It's the line from Gandalf in the Hobbit movie, 'Saruman only thinks that great power can keep evil at bay. That's not what I found.'"