"With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?"
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"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."
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"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."
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"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."
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"Each day provides its own gifts."
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"Too fair to worship, too divine to love."
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"The motive power of democracy is love"
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"As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?"
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"No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world."
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"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
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"He that is jealous is not in love."
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"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."
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"Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries."
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"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."
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"What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another."
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"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
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"Study the past, if you would divine the future."
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"I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas."
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"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."
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"Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable."
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