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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel wachsen.]
To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.
What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance.
I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.
You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience.
Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.
To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.
I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.
Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left...
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.
Leaders of the world's religions said, 'What do you think about what I teach?' Jesus said, 'Who do you say I am?'(Luke 9:20)
It's very hard to imagine the phrase "consumer society" used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.
In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.
His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.
Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.
You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.
'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.
I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
Well, either you have a compartment under this floor, containing a living person, or the property is infested by giant moles
I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.
Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.
He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.
No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.
Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.
During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.
It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)
Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn’t giving up at all, it’s growing up.
And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.
There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.