This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning.


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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
FRANZ GRILLPARZER
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for th...
FRANZ LISZT
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly f...
FRANZ LISZT
This was an obligatory appointment.
FRANZ BECKENBAUER
Truth is a great flirt.
FRANZ LISZT
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring somethin...
FRANZ KAFKA
The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old p...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER
Objects speak: objects possess will and form, why should we wish to interrupt them! We have nothing ...
FRANZ MARC
The two designs are completely different. The first is totally futuristic, the second is more classi...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER
My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I r...
DENNIS FRANZ
I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will...
DENNIS FRANZ
Persons who write a 10,000 word document and call it a brief
FRANZ KAFKA
Books are a narcotic
FRANZ KAFKA
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
FRANZ KAFKA
You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recog...
FRANZ KAFKA
I do not hope for victory
FRANZ KAFKA
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as ma...
FRANZ KAFKA
From the true antagonist, illimitable courage is transmitted to you
FRANZ KAFKA
Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward
FRANZ KAFKA
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog
FRANZ KAFKA
We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have no...
FRANZ KAFKA
Evil is whatever distracts.
FRANZ KAFKA
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
FRANZ LISZT
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in mo...
FRANZ LISZT
If the French were German in their essence, then how the Germans would admire them!
FRANZ KAFKA
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule,...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is n...
FRANZ KAFKA
Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful m...
FRANZ MARC
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER
The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to ...
FRANZ KAFKA
What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptiv...
FRANZ WRIGHT
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbea...
FRANZ KAFKA
I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation m...
FRANZ WRIGHT
Who has the gift to recognize beauty, will not live long
FRANZ KAFKA
Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
FRANZ LISZT
When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before ...
FRANZ WRIGHT
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER