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1187 German Quotes

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Experience Fear Mixed Mystery
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Everything Made Possible Simple
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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Mankind Manner New Require
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Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Attention Deserves Drive Girl
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Enough Future Never Soon
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Truly New Criticism Art
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Counsel Fabric Life Real
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Idea Share Good Beauty
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Method Writing Buy Ways
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Ground Past Theatre Cities
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Shock Affect Gifts Point
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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Reality Scope Process Adjustment
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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Approach Baby Book Cannibal
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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

Public Opinion Judging Attitude
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

True Instant Picture Image
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Textile Built Woven Composed
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Able Aware Become Fright
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Books Public Quarrels
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Hope Knowing Love Only
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It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

Given Hope Only Sake
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Interest Judgments Matter Only
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

Power Life Facts Present
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Conquers Destruction Ecstasy Frenzy
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Truth Dying Wisdom Art
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Passion Borders Chaos Chaotic
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Away Bird Boredom Dream
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Authority Borrowed Death Everything
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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Armed Work Conviction Leap
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Character Destructive Feeling Life
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Form Human Interpretation Knowledge
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Dresses Etiquette Like Lying
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The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

The Will Is Beast
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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
You Are Not Responsible
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Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Grant That May Pray
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God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
God Writes Gospel Not
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I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Afraid That Schools Prove
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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Reasons The Enemy Of
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Forgiveness is God's command.

Forgiveness God's Command Is
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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Let The Wife Make
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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

The Lord Gives Riches
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First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

First Shake Whole Apple
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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

The God This World
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I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Fear What More Within
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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Have Held Many Things
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Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Peace More Important Than
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I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Cannot Will Recant Anything
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Nothing good ever comes of violence

Nothing Good Ever Comes
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The man who has the will to undergo all labour may win to any good.

The Man Who Has
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Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Blood Alone Moves Wheels
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The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

The Fewer The Words
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