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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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"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."

"If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."
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