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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' Immanuel Kant
War Will Evil Philosophers Bad More Said Praise Begets Greek Than Forgetting Mankind Who Even
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Jean Arp
Life Day Silence Technology Man Noise Humanity Will Distract Legend Increase Meditation Back Machines He Soon Devices Contemplation Passed His Essence After Turned
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it? Johann Kaspar Lavater
You Yourself Speak Evil Telling Someone Know Am Ask Certain Why
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Eyes See Front The Hardest Thing Your Hardest Hardest Thing Thing
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character Man Nothing Laughs More He Than Shows
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature Progress Development Knows Curse Inaction Pause Her
When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude. Karl Lagerfeld
Attitude People Dark Mother Some People Hair Healthy Nothing Dark Hair Some About Color Hair Color Open-Minded Like She Said Years Subject Years Ago Blond Very Germany Child Asked Homosexuality
What I love best in life is new starts. Karl Lagerfeld
Life Love Best Starts New
We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass. Karl Marx
Time Man Worth Nothing Everything Say One-Man Rather He Hour Most Another Another Man Just Just As Much Much Should
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. Ludwig van Beethoven
Music Knowledge World Comprehend Entrance Higher Cannot Which Mankind
O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me. Ludwig van Beethoven
Life Art Me You World Cause Impossible Men My Life Think Back Secret Way Say Would Brought Seem Seemed Only Stubborn Had Wrong Know Until Within Felt Makes How Am Leave Malevolent Greatly Ended Which Forth Held Who
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. Ludwig van Beethoven
Myself You Will Accident Birth Thousand Only Princes Am Beethoven
A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for. Martin Buber
Become Approach Has-Been Individual Divine Individual Person Beyond Reaching Been Person Human Cannot Created
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. Martin Heidegger
Man Language Master Though Fact Remains He Were In Fact While Acts
To dwell is to garden. Martin Heidegger
Garden Dwell
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. Martin Luther
You Word Feelings Believe More Lord Sinners Preaches Than Which Should Your Who Conscience Receives
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' Max Planck
Work Faith Science Words Seriously Has-Been Kind Must Temple Entrance Written Over Scientific Been Any Anybody Engaged Who Gates
God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you. Meister Eckhart
God You Yourself Made Out One Thing Come Expects Being Far Created Should Thing
Nature is a petrified magic city. Novalis
Nature City Magic Petrified
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich
Alone Loneliness Solitude Word Language Pain Our Sides Wisely Glory Being Sensed Being Alone Created Express Two
The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power. Pope Benedict XVI
Political Political Power Church Power Party Moral
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. Rainer Maria Rilke
Nature Heart Everything Recklessly Would Would-Be Unbelievable Voices Colors Instead Most Were Blooming Night
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. Rainer Maria Rilke
Future Long Before Itself Order Transform Happens Us
Never look encouragingly at the brass, except with a short glance to give an important cue. Richard Strauss
Important Give Except Never Glance Look Cue Brass Short
Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun. Sebastian Thrun
Positive Education Reward Side Learn Accomplishment Should Gaming Fun
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. Thomas a Kempis
Angry You Anger Yourself Wish Others Since Make Cannot Them
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