"People do not mind their faults being..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
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“Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.”
“A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it.”
“All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.”
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“Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.”
“Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.”
“no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any”