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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Historian

Born: October 14th, 1906

Died: December 4th, 1975

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