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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. Immanuel Kant
Religion Our Recognition Divine Commands Duties
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? Immanuel Kant
Hope Three Ought Following Combine Know Practical Well Questions May Interests Reason Speculative
Art is what defines us, what makes us human. Jan Vogler
Art Defines Makes Human Us
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him. Johann Kaspar Lavater
You Say Entirely Divided Know Him Another Till Inheritance
The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical. Johann Most
Aims Anarchist True Identical Communists
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Death Time Good Man Good Man Seen Looking Through Eternity
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Significant Memorial Most Leave Person Behind Them Letters Among
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Joy Sympathy Destiny About Only Know Sorrow Learn Does Person Anything Themselves Avoid
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character People Nothing Laugh Betray More Than Which
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Government Best Ourselves Govern Which Us Teaches
What I hate is nasty, ugly people. Karl Lagerfeld
Hate People Ugly Nasty Ugly People
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. Karl Marx
Time Class Every Society Ruling Ruling Class Ideas Force Material Intellectual Same Same Time Which Epoch
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. Karl Marx
Society Relations Sum Consist Individuals Within Does Which Stand Expresses
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. Karl Marx
Happy Experience People Made Most Praises Who
The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite. Karl Marx
World Lose Nothing Worker Workers Chains Unite
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. Karl Marx
Medicine Well Heals Diseases Doubts
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all. Karl Rahner
Future Will Christian Mystic He Exist
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. Ludwig Borne
Truth You Losing Illusion Finding Wiser Makes Than
I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap. Ludwig van Beethoven
Life People Impossible Miserable Other Say Must Find Able Lead Had Attend Almost Terrible Deaf Because Am Years Handicap Confess Any Just Just Because Social Might Profession Functions Cope Two
The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor. Luise Rainer
Life Trust Doctor Long Secret Long Life Never The Secret Of
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. Martin Heidegger
Food Agriculture Same Thing Corpses Food Industry Hydrogen Countries Industry Reduction Camps Same Essence Famine Production Manufacture Now Chambers Thing Bombs Gas Gas Chambers Extermination
We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time. Martin Heidegger
Time Every Everything Right Time Say Remains Name Goes Being Which Means Actually Right Thing
Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time. Martin Heidegger
Time Nothing Constant Temporal Something Remains Thus Like Without Passing Being Which Beings Away Thing
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf. Martin Luther
First Fall Tree Shake Leaf Look Limb Climb Branch Might Then Whole Each Twig Apple
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. Martin Luther
Faith Christ Strongly More Sin Sinner Rejoice
There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method. Max Born
Believe Incredible Types Those Must Objectionable Discarded Scientific Scientific Method Method Replaced Who Belief Believers Two
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