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- Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is…
- Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
- Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
- Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
- So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
- No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man…
- Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
- Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
- Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity,…
- The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents…
- If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
- The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
- In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and…
- Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what…
- No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor,…
- The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
- Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then;…
- If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom…
- People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and…
- I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my…
- All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.
- All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.
- I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
- Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle