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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship Suffering Joy Our Someone Over Makes Friend Rejoicing
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. Friedrich Nietzsche
Confidence Rights People Gift Believe Complete Ours Given False Inference Us Who Right
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. Friedrich Nietzsche
God Man Once Spirit Became Becoming Mob Then Even Now
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. Friedrich Nietzsche
Shared Joys Make Friend Sufferings
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. Friedrich Nietzsche
You Humane Someone Shame Most Regard Spare
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises. Friedrich Nietzsche
Despises Respects Himself Nonetheless Who Whoever
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one. Friedrich Nietzsche
Together Mind Men Hundred Another Loses His Gets Them Stand Each
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. Friedrich Nietzsche
Women Considered Shallow Never Bottom Because Discover Women Are Any Them Deep Even Why
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. Friedrich Schiller
Love Happy Cottage Smallest Loving Room Pair
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man Only Small Candle Burning Loves Company Even
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. Georg Simmel
Life Culture Problems Face Overwhelming Heritage Claim Individual Individuality Forces His Existence Historical Modern Modern Life Autonomy Social Derive Deepest Technique External Preserve
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Knowledge Matters Shoes Our Know Fit Any Just Interest Little Acquire Professionals Universal Need
World history is a court of judgment. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History World Judgment Court World History
People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation? Gunter Grass
Time Me You Change Strange People Sometimes Alien People Change Think Alienation Later About Seem He Feel Him Am Were His Years Child Person Trying Childhood Happened Decipher Certain Stranger Things
Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order. Gustav Heinemann
Hope Better Insecurity Mingle Order Resignation
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. Hannah Arendt
Power Lying Those Pick Know Make Up Revolutionaries Revolutions Then Who Street
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. Hannah Arendt
Odds Overwhelming Everyday Statistical Guise Miracle Laws Purposes New Practical Always Probability Happens Which Against Certainty Therefore Appears Amount
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. Hannah Arendt
Future Promises Way Possible Reliable Making Human Ordering Predictable Uniquely Human Way Extent
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. Hannah Arendt
Day Conservative Will Become Revolution Radical Most Revolutionary After
I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I'm not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are. Heidi Klum
You Little Things Someone Instinct Make Sure Always Am Up Survivor Gets Where Again Little Who Even Things Setbacks
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. Heinrich Heine
Book Reading Dreamed Boredom Fell Sheer Dull Asleep Kept
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. Hermann Hesse
History Humanity Writing Words Books Would Would-Be Could Concept Without
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. Hermann Hesse
Life Love Death Great Transformation Sweet Call Accept Answer Affirmative Eternal Forms
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. Hermann Hesse
Long Joke Enough Mere Just Eternity Moment
The truth is lived, not taught. Hermann Hesse
Truth Truth Is Taught Lived
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. Immanuel Kant
Good Good And Evil Evil Those Latter Object Objects Only Also Practical Principle According Former Meant Reason Therefore Shunned Necessarily Desired
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