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#1

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

tags: philosophy

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#2

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

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#3

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: character, misattributed, nobility

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#4

“Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities

tags: bounds, enslavement, error, false-belief, freedom, freedom-of-thought, imprisonment

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#5

“A person hears only what they understand.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

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#6

“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.”
― Bertolt Brecht

tags: germans, poet

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#7

“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?”
― Bertolt Brecht

tags: cheese

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#8

“When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Brecht on Theatre

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#9

“Ich rate, lieber mehr zu können als man macht, als mehr zu machen als man kann.”
― Bertolt Brecht

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#10

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#11

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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#12

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

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#13

“I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

tags: love, sadness, waste

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#14

“Was ich weiß, kann jeder wissen. Mein Herz hab' ich allein.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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#15

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: intelligence, intelligent-action

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#16

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#17

“This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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#18

“I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

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#19

“A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#20

“A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn”
― Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Physicists

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#21

“Je planmässiger Menschen vorgehen, desto wirksamer trifft sie der Zufall.”
― Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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#22

“Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.”
― Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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#23

“Der Inhalt der Physik geht die Physiker an, die Auswirkung alle Menschen.”
― Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Die Physiker

tags: die-physiker, ethik, weltformel

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#24

“Je öfter sich ein Politiker widerspricht, desto größer ist er.”
― Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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#25

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

tags: business, love

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