The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

'One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.'

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

The only thing I am sure of is that I am not sure of anything.

'A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.'

I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness.

One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me.

'He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.'

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization.

It was greatest before there was any civilization.

EGO

The ego is not master in its own house.

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'No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.'

'The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men.'

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I’m 30 today

In my 20s, I spent 3 years studying, 3 years climbing the corporate ladder, and 3 years building a startup from the ground up.

Here are 20 lessons from my 20s to help you make the best of life's most pivotal decade

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'Victory is not merely the triumph over an external adversary, but the conquest of the self. It is the relentless pursuit of excellence, the relentless refinement of one's character, and the relentless cultivation of one's inner strength. True victory is found not in the

'And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.'

- Friedrich Nietzsche

'Life is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation.'

- Friedrich Nietzsche

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.