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"There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do."
Art
"The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion."
Compassion
"Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original."
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"Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem."
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"Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time."
Time
"Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science."
Science
"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
Poetry
"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."
Time
"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
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