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Philosophical literature · Historical literature

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy of History · 1832

★ 7.1

Treatise · Philosophical literature

The most perfect of all works of art is true political freedom.

Friedrich Schiller

1794

★ 7.0

Philosophical literature · Historical literature

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy of History · 1832

★ 6.3

Play · Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich Schiller

The Maid of Orleans · 1801

★ 6.2

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

Siddhartha · 1922

★ 6.2

Play · Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

What's not forbidden to do make bold.

Friedrich Schiller

The Camp of Wallenstein · 1798

★ 5.4

Play · Drama (play) · Drama

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

Friedrich Schiller

1804

★ 5.4

Philosophical literature

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Martin Heidegger

Building Dwelling Thinking · 1951

★ 5.3

I am much occupied with the investigation of physical causes. My aim in this is to show that the celestial machine is not similar to a divine animated being, but similar to a clock.

Johannes Kepler

1605

★ 5.2

Play · Tragedy (play)

It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.

Friedrich Schiller

1787

★ 3.7

Lecture · Philosophical literature

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Friedrich von Schelling

1803

★ 3.6

Where the danger is, also grows the saving power.

Friedrich Holderlin

1808

★ 3.6

Lecture · Philosophical literature

What experience and history teach is this-that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

1830

★ 3.6

Novel · Coming of age story

Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Peter Camenzind · 1904

★ 3.5

Novel · Coming of age story

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Demian · 1919

★ 3.5

Novel · Coming of age story

One never reaches home... But wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Demian · 1919

★ 3.5

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

Steppenwolf · 1927

★ 3.5

But there is good and reason in us, in human beings, with whom fortune plays, and we can be stronger than nature and fate, if only for a few hours. And we can draw close to one another in times of need, understand and love one another, and live to comfort each other. And sometimes, when the black depths are silent, we can do even more. We can then be gods for moments, stretch out a commanding hand and create things which were not there before and which, when they are created, continue to live without us.

Gertrude · 1910

★ 3.5

If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

Gertrude · 1910

★ 3.5

Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.

Gertrude · 1910

★ 3.5

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