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1187 German Quotes

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Faith Half Knowledge OneHalf
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Character Fate Same SameThing
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Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Gods Rule Where
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
City Magic Nature Petrified
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

Closely ConnectedInvisible More Than
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

Everywhere Home Philosophy Properly
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
Comprehend Far More Never
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Character Conception Deeply Ever Fate
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Acquainted Against Become Disputed
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
Beloved Center Every Object
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

Divinity Indispensable Links Mediator
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Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Being Concerned Faith State
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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Accept Being Courage Oneself
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Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Created
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The first duty of love is to listen.

Duty First Listen Love
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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Answers Asking Being Even
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Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Act Being Concerned Consists
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Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Being Courage Decision Free
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Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Astonishment Philosophy Root
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There is no love which does not become help.

Become Does Help Love
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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Again Day Embarrassment Everyone
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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Clouds Leaves Moving Respond
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Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Answer Being Concern Concerns
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Created
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Boredom is rage spread thin.

Boredom Rage Spread Thin
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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

Avoiding Being Neurosis Way
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Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
Doubt Element Faith Opposite
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Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

Also Always Cruelty Others
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If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

Measures Sing Song Stirring
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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Act Being Faith Finite
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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Asked Become Destiny Fulfill
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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Expresses
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The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Anxiety Appears Courage Disappeared
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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Being Fails Failure Forgiven
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Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Able Alone Because Concern
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The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

Achievements Ambiguity Awareness Deepest
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Approach Changed IPod Music
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Along Also Get However
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Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Also Beautiful Beautiful Woman Beauty
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Could Discussion Fascist Follow
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I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

Eat Fish Like Meat
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

Exactly Exactly The Same Had Now
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I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

As Far As Because Care Concerned
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

Because Before Brought English
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

Boring Boring People Drank Drink
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

Artist Become Cartoon First
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I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Ask Go Instinct Marketing
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If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

Body Dangerous Something Sauce
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It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

About Because Big Clothes
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My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

Favorite Italian Japanese Kitchen
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