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Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
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For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit…
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By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it,…
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The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform…
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Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any…
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For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
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Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with…
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Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need…
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In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any…
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The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and…
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The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress,…
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Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year…
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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
— Aneurin Bevan
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I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic…
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The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces…
— Sun Tzu
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Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
— Frank Moore Colby
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People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck…
— Wayne Gretzky
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Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind…
— Rajneesh
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Just understand, don`t choose - don`t choose even choicelessness. Simply understand the whole situation: that whatsoever you choose, whatsoever you do, will…
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The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human…
— Karel Appel
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On Sept 15th [1852] Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Mr Babbage's calculating machine, and…
— Unknown Author
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The reason for your poor projections is often right in front of you. Whether you are using statistical analysis or just an…
— Des MacHale
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