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"To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
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"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights."

"Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it."

"We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest."

"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."

"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think."

"When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated."

"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it."
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