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Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted. Eckhart Tolle

Life You Wonderful Master Become Thinking Tool Bad Restricted Becomes However Very Dominated Then Your Applied

The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless. Edith Stein

Love Words Fear Word Example Living Every Carried Out Must Entire Remain Instill Most Instruction Disciplinary Without Does Method Educational Effective Any Process Which Measure Useless

Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.' Edith Stein

Life People Maturity Before Herself Say Possessed Able Only Individual Tends Individual Person Develop She Course Without Becomes Person Personal Being Achieves Acquainted Certain Who Uniqueness Her

Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong. Flula Borg

You Strong Sometimes Insanity Make Exercise Really Your

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. Frank Wedekind

Art Fool Bad Luck Luck Consists Bad Knowing How Any Exploit

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist. Friedrich Engels

Freedom Speak Down State Proletariat Possible Soon Adversaries Becomes Exist Ceases Order Hold Interests Uses

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. Friedrich Nietzsche

Women Men Torment Most Sensual Flee Bodies Who Need

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth Man Truth Is Waters Shallow Dirty Does Wade Dislike Enlightened

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. Friedrich Nietzsche

Disposition Sign No-One Annoy Well Equally Anxious Just Desire Harm

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood. Friedrich Nietzsche

Love Own Only Written His Blood Person

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena. Friedrich Nietzsche

Interpretation Moral Only Phenomena

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth Lie Sometimes Tell Tells Accompanies May

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' Friedrich Nietzsche

Service Art Good Dance Wish Philosopher Dancer Finally Kind Fine Fine Art Spirit More Only Could Divine He Ideal Know Also Piety Knows His Than

Great souls suffer in silence. Friedrich Schiller

Great Silence Great Souls Souls Suffer

Nothing leads to good that is not natural. Friedrich Schiller

Good Natural Nothing Leads

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. Friedrich Schiller

Work Creative Mind Pour Too Ideas Hinders Intellect Closely Creative Work

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. Georg C. Lichtenberg

Better Argument Soldiers Always Handful Than

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things. Gerhard Richter

Success Time Achievement Other Indefinite Variations More Uncertainty No Time Lead Boundless Like Names Concepts Qualities Concerns Ideologies Mastery Opinions Conducive May Themes Working Specialized Publicity Things

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Friendship Fruit Hatred Borne Most Deadly Which Extinguished

I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves. Gunter Blobel

Telling Students Understand Always Doing Explain Themselves Then Grandmothers

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. Hannah Arendt

Defining Without Reveals Error Committing Storytelling Meaning

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. Hans Hofmann

Nature Spiritual World Three First Creation Medium Laws Through Absolutely Factors Contact Materials His Dominated Artist Different Which Us Creates Who Works Expression Inner Second Third Inner World

I am generally a very happy and easygoing person. I also believe it's always better to meet people with a smile rather than looking cold, especially when you first meet. It changes everything. Heidi Klum

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