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"The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast."
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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
Dream

"Consciousness is a born hermit."
Consciousness

"I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life, I should not be honest otherwise."
Philosophy

"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."
Friendship

"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."
Change

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
Fun

"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."
Man

"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."
Man

"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions."
Life

"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
Knowledge
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