Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. (Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens)
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He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.
Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Art is a lie that tells the truth.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them.