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"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form."
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"When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations."
"Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination."
"What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right, no one can be always right."
"To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don't give him poem to recite; don't give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is."
"Wisdom is the result of time well spent."
"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."
"A 'biomass' man is not deeply analyzing things to draw a meaningful conclusions."
"Only foolish fishes wish to fly!"
"Possession without understanding leads to loss."
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"The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history."
"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
"There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age."
"Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science."
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