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Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music Charm Horror Remain Point Never Nevertheless Reach Greatest Always Causing Passions Situations Disgust Whether Flatter Should Painful Thereby Even Expressed Ear Violent
The happy medium - truth in all things - is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligible that no rational being can comprehend them, though on that very account, they are likely to please. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Truth Happy Medium Please Though Valued Must All Things Comprehend Rational Write Longer Likely Known Very Account Being Gain Either Them Might Unintelligible Applause Things Played
Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats me with contempt, I can be as proud as any peacock. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Me People Despises See Contempt Proud Person Behave Any Just Them Peacock Treats
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. Alfred Adler
Success Failure Experience Suits Cause Our Out No Experience Purposes Make Shock Just So-Called Experiences Them Trauma Suffer
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. Alfred Adler
Inferiority Sign Bad Must Temper Interpret
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler
Fight Brainy Live Easier Principles Up Than Them
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. Alfred Adler
Ourselves Determine Give Determined Situations Meanings
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. Alfred Adler
Inferiority Human Being Feeling Own Possess Has-Been Constantly More Emotional Powerful Towards Greater Been Human Being Experienced Which Urge Means Agitation Conquest Violent
As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Day You Will Long Live Took All Day Oath Citizenship Never Never Forget Do You Know Know Around Proud How Years Years Ago Hand Walked Forget American Flag American Flag Shoulders Raised
Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy. Franz Schubert
Heart Light Mind Too Hides Easy Heavy
A man endures misfortune without complaint. Franz Schubert
Man Complaint Misfortune Without Endures
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. Friedrich August von Hayek
Freedom Will Beneficial Only Known Beforehand Effects Granted
He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants. Friedrich August von Hayek
Knowledge Learning Achieve Plants Will Appropriate Rather Results Shape Shapes He Environment Does Cultivate His Providing Handiwork Craftsman Which Manner Use Therefore Gardener Growth
All art is erotic. Gustav Klimt
Art
I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed. Hedy Lamarr
People Money Somebody Everybody Else Spend Most Advise Leave Your Lives Enjoyed Save
I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away. Hedy Lamarr
Death Fear Think About Massage Because Understand Goes Order Anything Away Start
Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching. Hedy Lamarr
Life Work Home Dog Men Breakfast Kids TV Stay Some Some Men Eating Kissing Clear Catching Like Bed Coming Coming Home Dull Going Often Routine Watching Watching Tv
After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth. Helene Deutsch
Truth Research Objectivity Ultimate Ultimate Goal Goal After
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. Konrad Lorenz
Good Day Morning Science Every Day Pet Before Young Breakfast Research Every Good Morning Hypothesis Discard Him Exercise Scientist Keeps
The world is the totality of facts, not of things. Ludwig Wittgenstein
World Totality Facts Things
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. Ludwig von Mises
History State Mischief Main Main Source Disaster Course Been Source Often
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Parenting Parents Faults Instilled Readily Least Forgive Children Them Themselves
Privilege is the greatest enemy of right. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Enemy Greatest Privilege Right
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude. Peter L. Berger
Today People Fault Pretense Uncertainty Between Lines Different Hold Different Beliefs Certitude Who Element Beliefs Basic
The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being. Rudolf Steiner
Science Human Being Understanding Those Through True Learned Dealing Educators Human Being Children Teachers Who Awakened Whom
However true it may be that we have estranged ourselves from Nature, it is nonetheless true that we feel we are in her and belong to her. It can be only her own working which pulsates also in us. We must find the way back to her again. Rudolf Steiner
Nature Own Back Way Ourselves Must Find Only True Feel Also Nonetheless However May Which Again Us Working Her Belong
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