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"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
— Ernest Hemingway
On November 4, 1995, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze died.
He challenged traditional ideas about identity, difference, and reality, arguing that life should be understood through constant change, creativity, and becoming.
Here are 8 of his most thought-provoking quotes: 🧵
8) "A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it."
Deleuze challenged us to question established ideas and embrace difference, creativity, and constant change.
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"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
— Nelson Mandela
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
— Marcus Aurelius
On November 3, 39 AD, Marcus Annaeus Lucanus was born. Better known as Lucan, the Roman poet challenged the glorification of war and tyranny through his epic account of Caesar and Pompey's civil war.
Here are 8 of his most thought-provoking quotes: 🧵
Lucan's writings explored the destructive consequences of ambition, tyranny, and civil war. Though his life was cut short at just 25, his work remains an important part of Roman literature and political thought.
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