The whole visible world is ...

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man\'s wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.
The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.
Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.