• Time

  From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

  4.4 · 19 votes · 199 reads

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• Feelings

  Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

  4.7 · 8 votes · 160 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

  3.4 · 9 votes · 136 reads

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• Defects

  It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

  3.7 · 47 votes · 133 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

  3.9 · 64 votes · 104 reads

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• Virtues

  Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

  3.4 · 25 votes · 14 reads

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• Various

  Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

  5.0 · 33 votes · 183 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

  4.7 · 40 votes · 61 reads

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• Various

  Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

  4.6 · 59 votes · 161 reads

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• Various

  Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.

  3.0 · 33 votes · 169 reads

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• Art and Culture

  One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  3.1 · 64 votes · 68 reads

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• Various

  Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

  4.5 · 64 votes · 7 reads

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• Virtues

  Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

  3.9 · 13 votes · 131 reads

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• Virtues

  Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

  3.9 · 63 votes · 200 reads

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• Various

  The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality

  4.6 · 15 votes · 132 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

  3.4 · 33 votes · 83 reads

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• Various

  The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

  3.6 · 22 votes · 38 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

  4.8 · 8 votes · 146 reads

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• Time

  The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

  4.6 · 64 votes · 40 reads

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• Society

  The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.

  3.5 · 23 votes · 15 reads

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• Various

  The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

  4.5 · 44 votes · 76 reads

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• Various

  The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  3.7 · 36 votes · 146 reads

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• Time

  The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

  4.9 · 46 votes · 95 reads

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• Government and Politics

  The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of st

  4.9 · 25 votes · 107 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The word ''belief'' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it -I don't need to believe it.

  4.5 · 55 votes · 164 reads

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• Feelings

  There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

  4.3 · 63 votes · 51 reads

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• Feelings

  There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

  4.7 · 7 votes · 63 reads

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• Feelings

  Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  4.6 · 50 votes · 129 reads

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• Feelings

  Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

  5.0 · 55 votes · 22 reads

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• Virtues

  Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

  4.4 · 13 votes · 67 reads

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