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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche
Madness Rare Rule Individuals Parties Nations Ages Groups
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Immanuel Kant
Experience Mere Blind Without Intellectual Theory Play
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. Immanuel Kant
Recognize Individuals Always End Human Ends Them Means Use Your
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational Love Great Spirit Wings Deeds Desire
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck
Truth Science Generation Light See Triumph Rather New Because Scientific New Generation Does Making Opponents Scientific Truth Up Familiar Die Them Convincing Eventually Grows
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. Otto von Bismarck
War Eyes Will Before Think Soldier Battlefield Looked Anyone Dying Hard Who Ever Starting
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. Adolf Hitler
War Future Enemy Sabotage Within Terror Surprise Assassination
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein
Good Eyes Closed He Longer Dead His Wonder Pause Stand Who Awe
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. Albert Einstein
Life Health Soul Devil Enjoy Penalty All Things Put Get Either Suffer Things Fat
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. Albert Einstein
Truth Justice People Problems Matters No Difference Small Between Concerning Issues Same Difference Large Treatment
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer
Example Others Only Main Main Thing The Only Thing Influencing Thing
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
World Society Kind Moral Test Leaves Ultimate Children
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small. Eckhart Tolle
You Small Things Power Think Exactly Disturb Small Then Who Things
When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well. Eckhart Tolle
Life Humanity People Ego Mind Become Sense Nothing Other Else Minds Life Forms Except Share Taken Feel Longer Over Concepts Identified Well Get Human Human Beings Forms Planet Beings Even Extent
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence. Eckhart Tolle
You Human Being Mind Own Thinking Other Kind See Only Implies Concept Identified Another Reduce Any Human Being Anymore Form Prejudice Means Your Violence
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. Hannah Arendt
Totalitarianism Propaganda Only Attracted Masses Mob Won Itself Momentum Elite
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. Hannah Arendt
Sad Truth Good Truth Is People Evil Sad Truth Minds Never Most Make Make Up Up Done Who
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. Hannah Arendt
Leader Become Admit Never He Mass Qualification Infallibility Error Chief Unending
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Family Woman Only Develop Center Loving
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid. Martin Luther
Bible Christ Cradle Laid Wherein
Never lose a holy curiosity. Albert Einstein
Lose Never Curiosity Holy
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. Albert Einstein
Thinking Shall New Survive Substantially To Survive Mankind Manner Require
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. Albert Schweitzer
Wise Light Pessimist Everywhere Only Sees Colorblind Wise Person Red Truly Optimist Green Person Green Light While Who
The Church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Service Prosperity Church Spirituality Others Our Ourselves Admire More Put Vehicles Maintenance Come Like Repair Where Automobile Center Place Capacity Rehabilitation Display Need
Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end. Eckhart Tolle
Life People Treat Live Entire Entire Life Only True Stepping Stepping Stone Opposite Were End Itself Stone Happens Next Means Your Moment Present Present Moment
The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. Friedrich Nietzsche
Reality Word Christian Christianity Has-Been Cross Only He Misunderstanding Been Died
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