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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference. Carl von Clausewitz
Man Thinking Frame Rules Principles Provide Reference Intended
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. Carl von Clausewitz
Speak Fog Action Moonlight Kind Seem Tends Takes Like Make Than Often Place Which Really Grotesque Larger Twilight Things
I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you. Clara Schumann
You Happy I Am I Am Happy Possessing Horses Am Diamonds Want
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. David Hilbert
Mathematics Game Simple Paper Marks Rules According Meaningless Certain Played
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Love Truth Nothing Relative Must Between Since Come Makes Person Human Regard Little Human Love Even Beloved
Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore. Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Suffering People Some People Meditation Some Spiritually Simply Contact Because Without Coming Any May Anymore Stand Teaching Awaken Ever Technique
I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process. Eckhart Tolle
Work Intelligence World Walks Grass Believe Every Flower Universe Say Ongoing Strongly Blade Outside Feel Very Cell Process Agent Then Created Creates Creating Body Away
You are not a problem that needs solving. Eckhart Tolle
Needs You Problem Solving
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender. Emil Ludwig
Love Time Relationship Surrender People Decision Kiss First Love Story Changes Final Strongly More Crucial Most Because Within First Time Than Any Story Much Even Two Two People
To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give. Franka Potente
Time Birthday You Gift Somebody Give Biggest Your
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature Knowledge Mind Insects Honey Thither Our Way Lies Winged Beehive Perpetually Being Treasure
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. Friedrich Nietzsche
Blame Madness Virtue Everyone Praise Human
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly. Friedrich Nietzsche
Man Woman Women Stupidity Men Stupid Cowardly Say
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth Eyes Result Sphinx Various Truths Even
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. Friedrich Nietzsche
Time You World Will Become Gone Everything Though Crooked Glance Were Just Straight
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. Friedrich Nietzsche
Character Those Determined More Had Than Lack Experiences Certain
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Friedrich Nietzsche
Live Possible Longer Proudly Die Should
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. Friedrich Nietzsche
Positions Extreme Contrary Moderate Succeeded
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. Friedrich Nietzsche
God Believe Could He Because Were Cannot
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. Friedrich Nietzsche
Emotion Wit Epitaph
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Change Better Will Say Must Get Cannot Whether Things
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nature Achieve Power Goodness Mere Against Little
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Freedom History World Progress Other None Than The History Of Consciousness
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Rights World Wrong Between Genuine Tragedies Conflicts Right Right And Wrong Two
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Liberty Must Be Careful Mentioned Observe Always Private Whether Which Really Interests Thereby Assertion Careful
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Thankful Prayer Grateful Thought Single Perfect Toward Most Heaven
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