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1187 German Quotes

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Many people Prevent Thinking
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Greater impediment Progress Sciences
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Opposite Something Imitation
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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
Nothing can Contribute Peace Soul
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Nothing makes Old Thought Growing older
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Virtue Premeditation Worth much
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Sure conviction Reason Good minds
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Book Mirror Look Apostle
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

We accumulate Opinion Age
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Convinced Love Ourselves Hate
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Obliged Regard Minds Clever
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Inferred Man Mistress Weaknesses
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

Someone Occupies Official position
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
A handful Soldiers Mouthful Arguments
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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Most people Disbelief Founded Blind belief
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Everywhere Greater part Human wisdom
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Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Sickness Greatest defect
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Truth Needs Garments Appeal
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists

Gift Employing Vicissitudes Life
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Delight Understand Abstract System
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Called An acute Human nature
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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Receive applause Works Demand Power
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Habit Friction Mind Gliding over
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Pleasures Imagination Drawings Models
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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Know Our weakness Cease Any harm
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Human tendency Regard Little things
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Life Required Bestow Superficial glance
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Grow wiser Learn Fault Instrument
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Man Masterpiece Creation Believe
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
Noble Simplicity Works Nature
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

Take back stuff Bush Cloud
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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

People Necessary Millions Die
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Man God Passion
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My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

My beautiful Proof Ruins
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The essence of mathematics is in its freedom.

Essence Mathematics Freedom
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Great innovation only happens when people aren't afraid to do things differently.

Great innovation Happens Afraid Differently
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I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

Realize Undertaking Opposition
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Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting.

Blindly follow Guidance Instructions
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Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach no greater satisfaction than the breaking of itself in dignified annulment.

According Breaking Dignified Everything
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Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Joy Things Us
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I write music with an exclamation point!

Exclamation Music Point Write
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I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

Am Any Convinced Currents
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I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

Abyss Am Beings Fond
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Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

Achievements Credited Drudgery Result
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I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

Big Chain Cheap Deprive
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Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Also Anything Ask Change
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Imagination creates reality.

Creates Imagination Reality
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I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

Achieve Artistic Been Convinced
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I wish I could score everything for horns.

Could Everything Horns Score
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Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

Fish Go Where Wherever
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