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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.


Max Wilhelm Dehn

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Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater.
MAX WILHELM DEHN With me everything turns into mathematics. [Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]
MAX WILHELM DEHN Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.
MAX WILHELM DEHN Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
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WILHELM WUNDT I didn't think; I experimented.
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WILHELM REICH The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature...
WILHELM STEKEL You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than mon...
WILHELM REICH I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you re...
WILHELM REICH It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be...
WILHELM REICH You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, eve...
WILHELM REICH Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing t...
WILHELM REICH You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he de...
WILHELM REICH The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one...
WILHELM STEKEL Anxiety is fear of one's self.
WILHELM STEKEL The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms th...
WILHELM REICH The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature m...
WILHELM STEKEL I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic e...
WILHELM REICH Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive...
WILHELM WUNDT Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense per...
WILHELM WUNDT Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, wit...
WILHELM WUNDT Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
WILHELM STEINITZ The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the cont...
WILHELM WUNDT I have a clear conscience.
WILHELM CANARIS As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
WILHELM FRICK The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But the...
DOUG WILHELM The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can ...
WILHELM OSTWALD On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is g...
WILHELM DILTHEY As soon as we step beyond the established boundaries of pure thermodynamic theory, we enter a trackl...
WILHELM WIEN The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the conc...
WILHELM OSTWALD Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in ...
WILHELM WIEN In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and fac...
WILHELM WUNDT If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the ...
WILHELM KEITEL Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
KAISER WILHELM If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the tota...
WILHELM DILTHEY In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than ...
WILHELM OSTWALD Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destr...
WILHELM REICH Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensabl...
WILHELM WUNDT On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, wh...
WILHELM WUNDT No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but ra...
WILHELM DILTHEY All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity...
WILHELM DILTHEY The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychol...
WILHELM WUNDT By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the...
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WILHELM STEKEL The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the matur...
WILHELM STEKEL From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
WILHELM DILTHEY Stanford is the No. 7 team in the nation, and we were with them the whole way. I felt we raced a lot...
JOE WILHELM My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.
WILHELM FRICK This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Con...
WILHELM KEITEL Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.
WILHELM KEITEL I understand there are some differences between the hotel industry and the gaming industry. Why the ...
JOHN WILHELM Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
WILHELM REICH Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
WILHELM STEINITZ The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always ...
WILHELM DILTHEY Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold bet...
WILHELM WUNDT Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediatel...
WILHELM OSTWALD For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very...
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WILHELM WUNDT The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hyp...
WILHELM WUNDT Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the fact...
WILHELM WUNDT According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of abso...
WILHELM WIEN We have some really loyal people with us who helped to brand the Franklin name and reputation. We wi...
WILHELM MEYA I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
WILHELM STEINITZ Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game.
WILHELM STEINITZ Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
WILHELM STEINITZ A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.
WILHELM STEINITZ Sadistic brutality and mystical feeling go always hand in hand when the normal capacity for orgastic...
WILHELM REICH The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regar...
WILHELM WUNDT The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the in...
WILHELM WUNDT The refutation of a sacrifice frequently consists in its acceptance.
WILHELM STEINITZ To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one'...
WILHELM DILTHEY The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also...
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WILHELM REICH Gradually it became clear that it is a fundamental error to try to give the sexual act a psycholo...
WILHELM REICH The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is res...
WILHELM REICH Mirror, mirror, here I stand. Who is the fairest in the land?
WILHELM GRIMM When, then, the Social Democrat worker found himself in the economic crisis which degraded him to th...
WILHELM REICH I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what ...
WILHELM REICH It is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is indispensable in the struggle to safeg...
WILHELM REICH For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this w...
WILHELM REICH I was given a bath, a new prisoner uniform in decent shape, and moved to another block.
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ULRICH WILHELM However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysi...
WILHELM DILTHEY Candor is always a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate.
WILHELM STEKEL Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.
WILHELM STEKEL In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.
WILHELM STEKEL . . . full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical fee...
WILHELM REICH Music is always noise-relatedAnd often not appreciated.
WILHELM BUSCH Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous
WILHELM STEKEL Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough
WILHELM BUSCH I did the close-ups, in harsh light, and you could see to the bone.
WILHELM BRASSE Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.
WILHELM STEKEL Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are op...
WILHELM STEKEL A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.
WILHELM STEINITZ Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. ...
WILHELM REICH Every muscular contraction contains the history and meaning of its origin.
WILHELM REICH Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
WILHELM REICH The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
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WILHELM REICH If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions ge...
WILHELM DILTHEY Work democracy cannot be imposed on people as a political system. It depends on the consciousness on...
WILHELM REICH It's not completely accurate to say it didn't freeze at all [this year], because there were some day...
JOE WILHELM I am now convinced that we have recently become possessed of experimental evidence of the discrete o...
WILHELM OSTWALD Max and Moritz for their part found no attraction in it.
WILHELM BUSCH Youth should heed the older-wittedWhen they say, don't go too far --Now their sins are all committed...
WILHELM BUSCH Becoming a father isn't difficult,But it's very difficult to be a father.
WILHELM BUSCH The (EU) member states agreed in March at the European summit in Brussels that this should be part o...
ULRICH WILHELM You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you a...
WILHELM REICH That the idea of God represents the conscience, the internalized admonitions and threats from parent...
WILHELM REICH The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.
WILHELM REICH Those who are truly alive are kindly and unsuspecting in their human relationships and consequently ...
WILHELM REICH Fui acusado de ser um utópico, de querer eliminar o desprazer do mundo e defender apenas o prazer. ...
WILHELM REICH Wie lieb und luftig perlt die Blase
Der Witwe Klicko in dem Glase.
WILHELM BUSCH Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
WILHELM REICH The soldier headed out to war is in the best position. He can unleash his aggressions on his enemy a...
WILHELM STEKEL Bear yourselves as Huns of Attila.
KAISER WILHELM Up high, the flies are playing,And frolicking, and swaying.The frog thinks: Dance! I knowYou'll end ...
WILHELM BUSCH In the meantime, on the sly,Something's going on up high.Max has shown some foresight here,For he br...
WILHELM BUSCH People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding.
WILHELM STEKEL Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world
KAISER WILHELM I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings.
WILHELM STEINITZ Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence.
WILHELM BODE Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the h...
WILHELM DILTHEY Sentences like the following are found in many mystical and reactionary writings though not as clear...
WILHELM REICH Thus we arrive at the problem of the relation of religion to the negation of sexual desire. Sexual d...
WILHELM REICH Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions m...
WILHELM REICH Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had ...
WILHELM WUNDT The allegation that two BND agents had Saddam Hussein's plan for defending the Iraqi capital and, on...
ULRICH WILHELM The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical element...
WILHELM WUNDT Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.
WILHELM WUNDT Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sci...
WILHELM WUNDT Finally, we arrive at the question of the so-called nonpolitical man. WILHELM REICH What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of...
WILHELM REICH I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.
WILHELM REICH Hence, what he wants—and it is openly admitted—is to implement nationalistic imperialism with me...
WILHELM REICH We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possibl...
WILHELM OSTWALD I know, Little Man, you are quick with the diagnosis of craziness when you meet a truth you don’t ...
WILHELM REICH People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For ...
WILHELM REICH The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordinatio...
WILHELM DILTHEY Leaving the AFL-CIO has nothing to do with saving money, ... It has to do with redirecting that mone...
JOHN WILHELM Chess is not for timid souls.
WILHELM STEINITZ We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts int...
WILHELM WUNDT A third emotional source of the defense forces is the sadistic conception of sexuality that the chil...
WILHELM REICH It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself...
WILHELM REICH Our friends and neighbors really stepped up to the plate for the folks down south.
GAYLE WILHELM We receive no federal dollars. We're federally mandated to respond to disasters, but our money comes...
GAYLE WILHELM There was quite a bit of interest in it. We're very excited that the generator will stay in the area...
GAYLE WILHELM We're living on the top of a pyramid,' he had said, 'supported by the massive base, rising above it,...
KATE WILHELM It's not just grandma's house we have to worry about. Now it's God's house, too.
HEATHER WILHELM The fact is, if the state decides that it needs to spend more money they bring it back to the people...
HEATHER WILHELM We're definitely happy to help any group that is doing this great work in any state. I think it's re...
HEATHER WILHELM At my urgent request the Curie laboratory, in which radium was discovered a short time ago, was show...
WILHELM, OSTWALD Ungratified sexuality is readily transformed into rage. "Prison explosions" are outbreaks of ...
WILHELM REICH That was the worst 15 kilometers ever in my life.
KATI WILHELM My coach told me to slow down and enjoy the rest of race. He told me nobody could catch me anymore.
KATI WILHELM After the last shooting, I knew nothing bad could happen. My coaches told me to just slow down and e...
KATI WILHELM I think the pressure was very high after the last races, not only from other persons, also from myse...
KATI WILHELM I thought that the sprint was my best chance but I stayed calm knowing that there was still two indi...
KATI WILHELM That was the worst 15 km ever in my life.
KATI WILHELM We have far surpassed our goal of receiving 500 dresses.
KAY WILHELM We are happy to provide formal dresses to these students at no cost, enabling them to attend proms a...
KAY WILHELM She did a great job. She was a really good stroke.
JOE WILHELM This is a pretty classic rivalry. These three crews have been racing this cup for a long time.
JOE WILHELM It's been nice to get on the water and become closer to our racing speed earlier in the season.
JOE WILHELM The basic religious idea in all patriarchal religions is the negation of the sexual needs. Only in v...
WILHELM REICH How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or Amer...
WILHELM REICH The discovery of a solar system object larger than Pluto is very exciting.
WILHELM ALTENHOFF Be a doer, not a stewer.
MAX LUCADO It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it ...
MAX MARTIN People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo...
MAX EASTMAN Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.
MAX EUWE These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.
MAX CANNON One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you k...
MAX LUCADO I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.
MAX CANNON It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the oppos...
MAX WEBER The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different fr...
MAX HEINDEL I saw my first two Broadway shows when I was 4 years old, 'The Lion King' and 'Beauty an...
MAX SCHNEIDER I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated...
MAX WEINBERG The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us w...
MAX WEBER The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
MAX STIRNER Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his po...
MAX WEBER One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of ...
MAX WEBER I am under the impression that in nine out of ten cases I deal with windbags who do not fully realiz...
MAX WEBER My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die...
MAX WALKER The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
MAX STIRNER The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
MAX BEERBOHM To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other peo...
MAX BEERBOHM I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul
MAX BEERBOHM Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
MAX WEBER I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.
MAX KAUFFMAN We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources an...
MAX BILL The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel agai...
MAX PERCY The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained th...
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