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Quotes by German Authors
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
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"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
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"You never fail until you stop trying."
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"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
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"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
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"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
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"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
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"Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature."
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"Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system."
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"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity."
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"I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self."
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"They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds."
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"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
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"I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it."
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"I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one."
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"National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right."
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"Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes."
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"A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man."
Man,
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"We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment."
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"We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep."
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"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
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"There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion."
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