National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
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It overstates the uniformity of all nations and ignores positive aspects.
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
Honor ... means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
'What is it that separates human beings from the so called lower animals? Well as I see it, it's exactly one half dozen significant things: Humor, Imagination,…
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may strugg…
If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, 'The same as everywhere!'