When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.


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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
It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fa...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often ten...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be consid...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
Freedom exists only with power.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Before you can do something you must first be something.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do th...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnes...
JOHANN VON GOETHE