Introspectium — Philosophy & Psychology
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I wore the suits they told me to wear, chased the dreams they sold me, loved the way they scripted, and called it life. Now I stand in the mirror, stripped of their applause, asking – who the hell am I when the crowd goes silent?
The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death. - Osho
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean. - Isaac Newton
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. - Hunter S. Thompson
He won every battle they chose for him, only to realize the war for himself had never begun.
Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre (often misunderstood - he meant we define ourselves through others' perceptions)
When you lose your true identity, the system doesn’t just exploit you, it replaces you with a false self. Shaped by society and its structures, you become unknowingly trapped, defending the very system that uses you. From birth, we are indoctrinated by family, culture, and power, leaving many lost in an identity crisis. That’s why discovering who you truly are and what you genuinely want is the first step toward real freedom.
Basically all civilizations have the same deep fear of the 'great man' that the Chinese alone have admitted to themselves in their saying: 'The great man is a public misfortune.' Basically all institutions are organized so that he arises as infrequently and under circumstances that are as unfavorable as possible.

– Nietzsche
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry." - Oscar Wilde
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

– Anaïs Nin
The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

— Viktor Frankl
"Love is a state of temporary psychosis."

— Sigmund Freud

In its earliest stages, love hijacks the brain’s chemistry, drowning reason in a surge of dopamine and oxytocin. We become blind to flaws, inflate virtues, and act with a recklessness that defies our usual logic, all under the spell of a beautifully convincing illusion.
We are all bad in someone’s story.
Ignoring toxic people is self care.
Rumors are created by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.

– Paulo Coelho
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

— Albert Camus
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

— Albert Einstein
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

— Mark Twain
Society loves great men in history books but fears them in real life so it builds systems to keep them from being born.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. — Bertrand Russell

If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then it wasn't wasted time. — John Lennon
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

— Mark Twain