Quotes and Aphorisms | Maurício de Oliveira

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Life can be anything but ideal.

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Experience is the executioner of innocence.

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The secret? Everyone is needy.

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Life is a reality, and reality imposes itself.

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Private property is humanity’s great faith.

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The unconscious is what is right before our eyes but cannot be seen.

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Really?

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If childhood is the best time to learn, then being a child is the only thing we truly learn in this world.

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In the unconscious game of culture, the only thing that is fully conscious is profit.

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The true essence of man is the man of the state. The rest is just talk.

— Sufficient Reason

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Everything that is
Is
Because there is sufficient reason
Everything that is not
Is not
For lack of sufficient reason

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The truth is the last thing we admit; after all, we are all children of desire.

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Reality sets in

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We may be the offspring of many other things, but we are certainly the offspring of desire.

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What is socialism? Socialism is an ideal.
What is capitalism? Capitalism is reality.
How can you put an end to an ideal? And how can you put an end to reality?
Both are indestructible.

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That you're a man, that you have feelings, and that they hurt—that's the last thing you'd ever admit, because it's the truth.

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But the ideal exists, and it influences the game. Reality prevails. That must be reason enough.

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Reason is the greatest comfort.

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The man abandons the boy he once was, but the boy never abandons the man.

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Consciousness: How could the universe look at itself in the mirror?
How can there be an “outside” and an “inside” that are one and the same?
Mirror.
Consciousness is the universe in the mirror.

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If we need laws, it is because, deep down, there are no laws.

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Time is God's poetry.

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One's own personality: the most likely place to lose oneself and the only possible place to find oneself,

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When it comes to this, nobody really knows much.

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I am a man of letters. All I expect is betrayal.

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The world doesn't need so much malice; there's already enough in people's eyes.

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Love exists only between equals.

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Art is man's only respite.

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The universe has two sides: the rich and the poor.

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When it comes to feelings, there are three paths: to experience them, to deal with them, or to forget them...

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Reason is loneliness. Most people live by a practical mindset.

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Half of life is food and shelter...

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Maturity can only occur when an individual asks himself, “What has humankind been doing on Earth during these seven thousand years?”

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We all live under the same truth.

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What right do animals have as they march to their deaths under the sword of men?

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"What is" always leads to an infinite loop or to the limits of knowledge. Perhaps humans are better suited to "how."

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If you want to tell a lie that everyone will believe, just say, “It’s a tradition.”

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"Morality, morality," they say, and kill the animals. "Morality, morality," others reply, and keep killing the animals...

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What is God's faith? Does God have faith in man?

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Consciousness: Knowledge or Courage?

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— Sufficient Reason

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Everything that is
Is
Because there is sufficient reason
Everything that is not
Is not
For lack of sufficient reason

What ought to be, but still is not
Seeks sufficient reason

What has attained sufficient reason
Need not be repeated or come to be again

Ideals have attained sufficient reason
Only new ideals need to be attained
Because they seek sufficient reason

It is not known whether reality seeks ideals
Or whether reason seeks ideals
Whatever it is, it does so out of necessity
The necessity of sufficient reason

And perhaps this explains it even further:
Once a child, there is no longer any need for it
And youth, maturity, old age, life
Insist on letting go; everything is left behind
And there is no need to repeat itself
Because sufficient reason has been attained

Perhaps that is why
Life marches toward death
And nothingness marches toward life
For they seek to attain something

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Reason asks for permission. Art bursts in with both feet on the chest.

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If vanity is your top priority, get out of here right away.

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— Better definition

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What are emotions or feelings? A synthesis of the whole.

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A need is the imperative that life be a reality, and the fulfillment of that need is the greatest proof that life is possible.

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There is only one truly collective possession in the world: the truth. Everyone claims to own it.

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Sex was more fun when it was forbidden.

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When you're looking for the wrong thing, you'll never find the right thing.

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Life is the instinct of the universe, and reason is the instinct of man. However...

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Everything interests me, but not everything is right for me.

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Only sex itself can make sense of this world. Only a deep, pulsating sensual force—one that manifests itself in men—can hold this life together.

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Animals are innocent.

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It wasn't because of cultural differences. It was really all about the money.

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— On Feelings

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Feelings are like a fully loaded truck careening downhill with no brakes.

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Things only happen when there is a good enough reason for them to happen.

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Philosophy investigates the truth, poetry marvels at the truth, and literature is the truth.

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Man kills innocent animals and then cries out for justice.

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I trip over the rocks as I look up at the clouds.

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There's always a kind response to what you don't understand.

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Evidence is reason, not vision.

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Culture is invisible: it’s right in front of us, yet we don’t see it.

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Nunca duvide do que pode haver dentro de um homem.

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Dentro de todo homem há um vendaval. Você não vê, mas ele está lá.

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Olhar para o chão significa humildade... ou revolta.

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Only a fool would believe that gay culture is all about sex. It’s really about sensuality, and that belongs to all of us. But here, I don’t know if it’s something within man or something greater than him. I think it’s something much greater and belongs to the universe.

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What we think is never the case.

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A skeptic may not know what the world is, but he can point out what it is not, and that in itself is a great achievement.

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We feel more than we realize.

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Eve seduced Adam with the apple... of her cheek.

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Ideology is the little lie that hides the big truth.

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— Loneliness

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If it weren't for friends, men would sleep with their enemies.

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What should we tell the animals? Watch out for men.

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For the ideal, there is only one man.

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Thinking with humor is the most childish of delusions, and thinking without humor is another great delusion.

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Of all my struggles, the greatest was with the lustful side of my soul.

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For the human ideal, there is only one man.
For the ideal of life, there is only one animal.
For the ideal of the universe, there is only one life.

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Justice holds ideals in one hand and a club in the other.

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A bank is an institution where people are kept outside and money is locked inside.

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I'll only trust a philosopher who has no teeth.

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Loneliness is the smallest yet greatest thing I've ever known in the universe!

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The mind craves freedom. And what do we give it? Prisons.

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The Great Filter:
What could wipe us all out is opinion.

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Faz da vida o teu templo.

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What threatens human life is opinion: democracy is not the result of opinion, but of reason and logic. We are playing a game with its own rules, called democracy, where opinion is one of the factors and rights—within its limits. After all, the fans are also part of the game, and it would be cruel to silence them. The fans’ enthusiasm is captivating and uplifting; however, competence will always prevail over a crowd that may voice its opinion but cannot change the outcome of this battle called reality.

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I always make room for my mistakes. I've known myself for a long time...

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From the perspective of “what is,” ultimately, we know nothing—or very little. Perhaps we are better suited to “how.”

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Private property is man's faith, and the market is his religion.

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If you don't think, someone else will think for you. If you don't act, someone else will act for you. In a way, existing is the art of taking up space.

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What's the difference between the best and the worst for the market? None: everyone pays the same price.

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Os animais na fila para morrer, e os homens na fila para comer.

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The smaller it is, the more cruel it is.

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I've been living with myself my whole life. I'm sick and tired of myself.

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I may not be much, but at least I'm a little bit.

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