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To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
~ Walter Kaufmann
Compatible
Defeats
Endure
Faith
Fashion
Heretic
Our
Relish
Resentment
Something
Suffering
Triumphs
Try
Without
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When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
~ Walter Kaufmann
Account
Became
Because
Belong
Civic
Equal
Equal Rights
Ethnic
Granted
He
His
Influence
Insisted
Jews
Later
Man
Origins
Religion
Rights
Should
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Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
Actions
Beauty
Coercion
Even
Form
Freedom
Lead
Legal
Lends
Less
Many
May
Part
Prevent
Transgression
Vices
Which
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How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
Fate
His
How
Important
Masters
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Person
Than
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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
Arrive
Beneficial
Consequences
Evil
Extremes
Forget
Great
However
Immorality
May
Men
Middle
Must
Only
Path
Through
Virtue
Wisdom
Without
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
Am
Convinced
Depends
Events
Far
Happiness
I Am
Life
Meet
More
More And More
Nature
Our
Than
Themselves
Those
Unhappiness
Way
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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
Glance
Greatest
Greatest Number
History
Human
Human Mind
Important
Mind
Most
Number
Once
Originated
Revolutions
See
The Most Important
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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
Best
Government
Itself
Makes
Unnecessary
Which
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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
Activity
Body
Enjoyment
Ever
Exercise
Mind
True
Two
United
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Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
Becomes
Citizen
Family
Father
Fellows
His
Household
Husband
Indifferent
Members
Toward
Wherever
Wife
Will
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Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
Confusion
Object
Original
Original Sin
Sign
Sin
Word
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It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
Benefit
Concept
Consolation
Dispense
Does
Hinge
How
Philosophy
Showing
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Language is a social art.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
Art
Language
Social
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Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
Conceived
Language
Redemption
Science
Sin
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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
Becomes
Divorced
Essence
Meaning
Object
Reference
Word
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One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
Another
Book
Closed
Fancy
Flight
Man
Observation
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'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
Appreciate
English
Foreigner
Independent
Only
Social
Training
Word
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Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
Biology
Bump
Essential
Human
Local
Nature
Physics
Psychology
World
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The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
Admirable
Examples
Familiar
Material
May
Objects
Real
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To be is to be the value of a variable.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
Value
Variable
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