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"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"A man in the house is worth two in the street."
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"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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"If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal."
Respect
"The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned."
Life
"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
Philosophy
"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies."
Man
"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."
Poetry
"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
Man
"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."
Man
"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."
People
"The first step towards philosophy is incredulity."
Philosophy
"No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings."
Nature
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