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Einstein, Albert. Quoted in "Clearfield Progress, Would Take Three Days to Make Simple Explanation of Theories, Says Einstein," by David P. Sentner, I. N. S. (International News Service) Correspondent. Quote Page 1, Column 1, Clearfield, Pennsylvania. 12 Dec. 1930.

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Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Schocken Books, 1951, pt. 3, ch. 12, sec. 3.

To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Theodor Adorno

Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft

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Adorno, Theodor. "Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft [An Essay on Cultural Criticism and Society]." Prismen, GS 10.1, 1955. Reprinted in Prisms, translated by Samuel and Shierry Weber. MIT Press, 1967.

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Kissinger, Henry. Letter to Oriana Fallaci. 4 Nov. 1972.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers [The Sorrows of Young Werther]. Leipzig: Weygand'sche Buchhandlung, 1774.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "The Sorrows of Young Werther." The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings, translated by Catherin Hutter. Signet, 2013.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Torquato Tasso. Leipzig, 1790, act 1, sc. 1.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Quoted in "Das Gottliche [The Divine]." Uber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen ad den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn [On the Teachings of Spinoza in Letters to Moses Mendelssohn], written by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. Breslau: Gottlieb Lowe, 1785, pp. 2-4.

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "The Godlike." The Essential Goethe, edited and translated by Matthew Bell. Princeton University Press, 2018.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Studies in Pessimism

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. Studies in Pessimism. c. 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. Studies in Pessimism. University of California Libraries, 2011.

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Schiller, Friedrich. Don Karlos [Don Carlos]. 1787, Hamburg, Germany, act 4, sc. 4.

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Schiller, Friedrich. "Don Carlos." Don Carlos and Mary Stewart, translated by Hilary Collier Sy-Quia. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 4, sc. 4.

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Luther, Martin. Tischreden [Table Talk]. Eisleben, 1566.

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Luther, Martin. The Table Talk of Martin Luther, edited by Thomas S. Kepler. Dover Press, 2005.

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Einstein, Albert. "Atomic Education Urged by Einstein." New York Times, 25 May 1946. Originally from "Telegram to prominent Americans." 24 May 1946. USA.

When you are at Rome live in the Roman style: when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

St. Ambrose

Quoted in Letter to Casulanus, by Saint Augustine

Saint Ambrose's advice to Saint Augustine.

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Saint Ambrose. Quoted in "Letter To Casulanus, From Saint Augustine." c. 396, ch. 32.

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Einstein, Albert. "Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon." Quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, 2007. Originally from Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon, 3 May 1949.

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Arendt, Hannah. "On Violence." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972, ch. 2. Originally published as "A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence." by The New York Review, 27 Feb. 1969.

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Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Schocken Books, 1951, pt. 3, ch. 13.

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Brecht, Bertolt. Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder [Mother Courage and Her Children]. 1941, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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Brecht, Bertolt. Mother Courage and Her Children, translated by Eric Bentley. Grove Press, 1991.

Where the danger is, also grows the saving power.

Friedrich Hölderlin

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Hölderlin, Friedrich. Patmos. c. 1808.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Friedrich von Schelling

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Schelling, Friedrich. Philosophie der Kunst [Philosophy of Art]. 1802-1803. Lecture series.

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Schelling, Friedrich. The Philosophy of Art, translated by Douglas W. Stott. University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorismen zu Lebensweisheit: Varanesen und Maximen [Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: Counsels and Maxims]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 1, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the wisdom of life." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Sabine Roehr and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

The end justifies the means.

Hermann Busenbaum

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Busenbaum, Hermann. Medulla Theologiae Moralis. 1650.