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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. Georg C. Lichtenberg

Filthy Our Would About Seem Obscene Nobility Idea Heads Did Us Bodies Many Things

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers. Georg Cantor

Myself Nature Concerning Frequently Opinions Undertaking Opposition Mathematical Infinite Realise Place Held Certain Views Widely Defended Numbers

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. Georg Simmel

Positive Relation Very Interaction Form Naturally Stranger Specific

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual. Georg Simmel

Personality Too One-Sided More Only Individual Pursuit Advance Division Demands Frequently Greatest Dearth Accomplishment Labor Means Ever

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Life Soul Will Animals Possession Because Themselves Body Right

All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Real Reasonable

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Great Events Pressure General Gives Principle Help

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered. Gerhard Herzberg

Knowledge Science Our Horizons More Pursue Because Discovered Much

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. Gottfried Leibniz

God Lie Changes Must Only Call Ultimate Source Exists Substance Which Reason Differentiation Things Necessary

It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself. Gottfried Leibniz

God Rest Beginning Intervention Rightly Only Through Demands Ideas Effect Itself Regard Inasmuch Should Monad Things

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Drinking Everything Except Lazy Being Loving Being Lazy Us Let Us

As long as we do not know how the cell works, we don't know the kind of havoc the AIDS virus creates in the cell. Gunter Blobel

Long AIDS Virus Kind Havoc Know How Cell Creates Works

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. Gunter Grass

Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust. Gustav Heinemann

Trust Correct Only Also Cannot Grant Who Prepared

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Hannah Arendt

Before Learn Doing Them Things

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. Hannah Arendt

Day Political Defiance Secular World-Wide One Day Religious Outstanding Well Decade Authority May Established Social Event Last Last Decade Phenomenon

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. Hans Hofmann

Art Complicated Creation Final Relation Astronomical Possibilities Would Take Combination Pictorial Concentration Explain Realization Act

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Politics Mediocrity Despised Greatness Needed

Never underestimate the power of the ocean. Heidi Klum

Power Ocean Never Never Underestimate Underestimate

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