The aphorism, the apophthegm, in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book-- what everyone else does not say in a book. Twilight of the Idols
I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction. Travels with Charley: In Search of America
All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult? Demian
Literacy made the Spaniards heirs to a huge body of knowledge about human behavior and history. Guns, Germs And Steel
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