Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quotes
We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.
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Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.
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Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.
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Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.
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What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? Why are we pointing to somebody else when we could take the time just to go to the polling places? We give away our power.
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I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)
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It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.
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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
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It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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I am me and I am okay.
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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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He who will not economize will agonize.
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We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.
