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Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

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No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

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The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

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A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

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An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

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When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

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He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

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No emancipation without that of society.

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The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: September 11th, 1903

Died: August 6th, 1969

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