Quotes · Skopia

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Philosophical literature

One must have chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883

★ 5.6

There's nothing of so infinite vexation As man's own thoughts.

1612

★ 3.6

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

125

★ 1.2

Trembled to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocent self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

Herman Melville

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities · 1852

★ 1.0