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A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. Robert Musil
Man Stupid Philosophers Fine Above Shallow He Head Talents Contemporaries Particularly Geniuses Regarded Literature Average Much Means Deep Thinkers
The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again. Robert Musil
Thoughts Further Must Finds Disturbed Something Only Remarks Developed Emotionally Attention Days Make Loose Shifted Again Used Found Here
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both. Robert Musil
Good Book Rare Other Bad Cases Determine Only Both Most Unusual Just Whether Useful
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one. Robert Musil
Healthy Mental Only Mentally Fact Between Healthy Person Person Difference Ill Who Illnesses
I don't know anything about life, but everything about cinema. Romy Schneider
Life Cinema Everything About Know Anything
Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause. Rudolf Bing
Way Disapproval Vulgarity Without Cannot Tolerated Express Expressions Applause Level
I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public. Rudolf Bing
Happy Believe Perfectly Nobody Likes Am Public Us
It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities. Rudolf Hilferding
Simple Society Must Moreover Price Obvious Conditions Commodities Differ Formation Social Social Conditions Capitalist Capitalist Society Production Based
Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition. Rudolf Hilferding
Competition Value Resulting Point Prices Whence Capitalist Theoretical Necessary Starting Phenomenon Starting Point Consequently Peculiar
Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices. Rudolf Hilferding
Value Respective Must Find Distributed Prices Since Like Parts Reduced Surplus However Them Modification Manner Production Expression Among
But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively. Rudolf Hilferding
Time Matter Example Respectively Objective Contained For Example Yards Conditions Labor Cloth Depends Whether Forty Coat Twenty Amount Socially Necessary Chance
The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science. Rudolf Hilferding
Science Made Economic Volume Bourgeois Impression Any Capital Publication Hardly Third
In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future. Rudolf Steiner
Future Best Behavior Mind Become Past Imitation Imitative Everything Favorable Must More More And More Environment Most How Continuously Done Children Regarding In The Past Create Connected Keep Conscious Need Raising Raising Children
What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself. Rudolf Steiner
Human Being Sees Poured He Environment Force Him Himself Becomes His Accordance Human Being Forms
In the very traits of his temperament, which have a considerable effect on his life of soul, a person bears within him qualities and impulses that have an obvious connection with those of his physical ancestors. Rudolf Steiner
Life Soul Considerable Ancestors Those Temperament Physical Bears Obvious Qualities Him Within His Effect Very Person Traits Impulses Which Connection
Our thoughts do not actually exist; they are only pictures. A great error was made at the end of the last human developmental period when existence was equated with thinking. 'Cogito ergo sum' is the greatest error ever placed at the head of the modern world view. Rudolf Steiner
Great Thoughts World Made Thinking Sum Our Only Head Developmental Pictures Period Equated Greatest Exist Existence Error End Modern Human Modern World Placed View Ever Actually Last World View
Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part. Rudolf Steiner
Architecture World Wish Rise Something Gives Individual Part Gothic Enclosed Craftsmanship Wherein Create Requires Congregation Activity Need Plays
Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write. Rudolf Steiner
Knowledge Writing Other Those Ability Kinds Only Mystery Write Learned Person Esoteric Human Different Average Average Person Human Knowledge Who Inner Extent
It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves. Rudolf Steiner
Life Great Soul World Great Deal Picture Our Ourselves Possibly Shadowy Mental Beyond Deal How Doing Reflected Very Get Ponder Helpful Inner Images External Inner Life External World
In our will, there lives something which is perpetually observing us inwardly. It is easy to look upon this inner spectator as something intended to be taken pictorially; the spiritual investigator knows it to be a reality, just as sense-perceptible objects are realities. Rudolf Steiner
Spiritual Reality Will Our Easy Something Objects Investigator Taken Observing Look Inwardly Knows Perpetually Intended Just Which Realities Us Lives Inner Spectator
It should not be expected that what is spiritual can be brought before the eyes, before the senses. It must be experienced inwardly and spiritually. Rudolf Steiner
Spiritual Eyes Before Must Brought Spiritually Inwardly Expected Experienced Senses Should
You cannot be an educator or a teacher without relating to children with full insight. Their urge to imitate has been transformed into a receptivity based on a natural and uncontested relationship of authority, and you must take this into account in the broadest possible sense. Rudolf Steiner
Teacher Relationship You Natural Sense Imitate Relating Possible Has-Been Must Insight Take Without Been Educator Account Authority Children Cannot Transformed Urge Full Based
A philosophy of freedom must set out from the experience of thinking, for it is through this experience of thinking that a human being discovers his own self, finds his bearings as an independent personality. Rudolf Steiner
Freedom Experience Human Being Personality Own Thinking Philosophy Independent Out Must Finds Bearing Through Self His Discovers Human Being Set
However superficial prevailing views of heredity seem to be, it must be admitted that a person is indeed the bearer of inherited characteristics. This is the one aspect. He must often battle against these inherited traits and rid himself of them in order to bring to fulfillment the talents laid into him before he entered earthly existence. Rudolf Steiner
Battle Before Earthly Indeed One Aspect Characteristics Entered Must Superficial Admitted Seem Prevailing He Talents Him Himself However Existence Person Traits Often Order Laid Against Them Aspect Fulfillment Inherited Rid Views Bring Heredity
In order to find our bearings in the spiritual worlds and see truly what is there for us to see, we need a further inner trait in our character, a quality I should like to term 'presence of mind.' In ordinary life, this is the trait we need when faced with a situation that requires us to make an immediate decision without hesitation. Rudolf Steiner
Life Character Spiritual Quality Decision Mind Situation Worlds Our Hesitation Immediate Further Find See Faced Bearing Term Like Make Without Truly Trait Order Ordinary Ordinary Life Us Should Requires Presence Inner Need
Between death and a new birth, we know that our body, down to its smallest particles, is formed out of the cosmos. For we ourselves prepare this physical body, bringing together in it the whole of animal nature; we ourselves build it. Rudolf Steiner
Death Nature Together Animal Build Down Birth Our Ourselves Out Physical Physical Body Cosmos Smallest Between New Particles Know Formed Body Whole Prepare Bringing
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