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"The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men."
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"This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy."
Creativity
"If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept."
Work
"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."
Character
"Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun."
Wisdom
"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."
Trust
"There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son."
Home
"Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass."
Progress
"Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail."
Knowledge
"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."
Life
"If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short."
Wisdom
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