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"If somebody says to you the quote"don't judge the book by its cover", then better first close your eyes for a moment and try not to judge anybody at all. Even much better if you don't have to believe in 100% with that quote."

"How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover."

"By now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago."

"Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's bad."

"There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end."

"To say, 'he lacks understanding', about someone is an open kashay (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed)."

"It may not be fair that people make judgments so quickly, usually within a few seconds of observation, but it's unrealistic to expect that they won't. So, if you want to be judged in a certain manner, be sure that your look and demeanor give that impression."
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"Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction."

"It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is."

"Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled."

"When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience."

"Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses."

"Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself."

"Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates."

"I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow."
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