"The man who masters himself is delivered..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
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“The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.[Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]”
“Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.”
“How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.”
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“Ask advice of him who governs himself well.”
“The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.”
“Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, "Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the best thing that's in you." So many people who are really in deep analysis look as though and act as though they have been filleted. There's no bone there, there's no stuff! How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.”
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“When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.”
“Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.”
“A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.”