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WERNER VON BRAUN Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. ROGER VON OECH The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populat... WERNER VON BRAUN To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face. JOHANN VON GOETHE Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Dare to be wrong and to dream. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three less... FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The sam... FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at o... FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Mankind is made great or little by its own will. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind. FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c... FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an
indispensable and stimulating law ... FRIEDRICH VON BERNHARDI War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter... KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the m... ALEXA VON TOBEL Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best OTTO VON BISMARCK Truth lives on in the midst of deception. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the... FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. The earthquake means go... LUDWIG VON MISES They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Life is the childhood of our immortality. JOHANN VON GOETHE Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER We are shaped and fashioned by what whom we love. JOHANN VON GOETHE If I love you, what business is it of yours? JOHANN VON GOETHE Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp... JOHANN VON GOETHE That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have... JOHANN VON GOETHE I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed! LUDWIG VON MISES He who considers too much will perform little. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER What shall he fear that does not fear death. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, jo... FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend i... FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER War is the province of danger. CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter... CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must be... CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means. CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ