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Small: Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it
"Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it"
Bertha von Suttner, Novelist
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Small: Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression
"Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression"
Robert Musil, Writer
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Small: What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom reall
"What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture"
Robert Musil, Writer
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Small: Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this ro
"Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together"
Robert Musil, Writer
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Small: It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a ma
"It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them"
Robert Musil, Writer
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Small: The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and
"The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again"
Robert Musil, Writer
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Small: The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all t
"The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one"
Robert Musil, Writer
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Small: Life is to blame for everything
"Life is to blame for everything"
Robert Musil, Writer
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Small: Today I start a diary it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need
"Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need"
Robert Musil, Writer
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Small: It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it
"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it"
Robert Musil, Writer
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Small: Dont you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?
"Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?"
Robert Musil, Writer
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Small: The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of th
"The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined"
Robert Musil, Writer
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Small: Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad for it is just as rare
"Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both"
Robert Musil, Writer
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Small: On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling ax
"On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room"
Robert Musil, Writer
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Small: If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility
"If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility"
Robert Musil, Writer
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Small: A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid particularly deep philosophers are usually s
"A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses"
Robert Musil, Writer
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Small: We do not take humor seriously enough
"We do not take humor seriously enough"
Konrad Lorenz, Scientist
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Small: I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man it is we
"I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we"
Konrad Lorenz, Scientist
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Small: I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive
"I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive"
Konrad Lorenz, Scientist
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Small: Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one
"Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one"
Konrad Lorenz, Scientist
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Small: God must have been on leave during the Holocaust
Simon Wiesenthal
"God must have been on leave during the Holocaust"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
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Small: When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity
Simon Wiesenthal
"When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
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Small: The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, th
Simon Wiesenthal
"The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
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Small: The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind
Simon Wiesenthal
"The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
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Small: Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have
Simon Wiesenthal
"Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
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Small: For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can a
Simon Wiesenthal
"For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
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Small: We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangero
"We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war"
Konrad Lorenz, Scientist
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Small: Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete wi
"Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing"
Konrad Lorenz, Scientist
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Small: Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same
"Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species"
Konrad Lorenz, Scientist
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Small: Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value
"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value"
Konrad Lorenz, Scientist
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Small: Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot
"Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot"
Konrad Lorenz, Scientist
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Small: We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its
Simon Wiesenthal
"We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
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Small: I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I
Simon Wiesenthal
"I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
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Small: Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations
Simon Wiesenthal
"Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
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Small: For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing
Simon Wiesenthal
"For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
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Small: Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at l
"Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man"
Konrad Lorenz, Scientist
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Small: What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands
Simon Wiesenthal
"What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
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Small: Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought
Simon Wiesenthal
"Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
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Small: The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this
Simon Wiesenthal
"The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
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Small: Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has tru
"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life"
Stefan Zweig, Writer
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