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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
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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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"A man in the house is worth two in the street."
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Personal Development

"In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
Art

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
Being

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
Age

"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
Cultural

"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market."
Love

"Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, man could become insane if he did not save himself by acquiring a secondary sense of self; he does that by experiencing himself as being approved of, worthwhile, successful, useful - briefly, as a salable commodity which is he because he is looked upon by others as an entity, not unique but fitting into one of the current patterns."
Psychology

"We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."
Dream

"Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him."
Quality

"The analysis of the psychological motivations behind certain doctrines or ideas can never be a substitute for a rational judgement of the validity of the doctrine and of the values which it implies, although such analysis may lead to a better understanding of the real meaning of a doctrine and thereby influence one's value judgement."
Wisdom

"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."
Faith
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