He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality


Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality
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Wer einen großen Skandal verheimlichen will, inszeniert am besten einen kleinen.
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
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He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
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He who excuses himself, accuses himself.
GABRIEL MEURIER
He who excuses himself accuses himself.
GABRIEL MEURIER
He who excuses himself accuses himself
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He Himself is the Immaculate Lord. He who has created, shall Himself destroy.
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a footnote on Friedrich Nietzsche.
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He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
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Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.
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Just being Palestinian exposes you to attacks.
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He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation.
PROVERB
He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation
PROVERB
He who excuses himself, accuses himself. [Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.]
GABRIEL MEURIER MEURIR OR MURIER
He who excuses himself, accuses himself. [Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.]
GABRIEL MEURIER (MEURIR OR MURIER)
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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He who will have no judge but himself condemns himself
PROVERB
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
SUSAN SONTAG
He conquers who conquers himself
LATIN PROVERB
Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?
UNKNOWN
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
KARL G. MAESER
In my opinion, he who invalidates is himself invalid.
MOSHE KAHLON
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.
DAVID SEABURY
He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.
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He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
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He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.
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The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
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For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
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He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
CONFUCIUS
He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.
LAO-TZU
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
LAO TZU
He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
LAO TZU
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty
LAO TZU
He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
LAO TZU
This exposes residents to The Villages' outdoor clubs.
SCOTT GRIMES
Marriage exposes the real us.
DOUG BRINLEY
He who flies proves himself guilty
DANISH PROVERB
He who makes excuses, accuses himself
FRENCH PROVERB
He who knows #himself #knows #ALLAH.
ALI R.A
He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
He who does evil to others, does it to himself.
TURKISH PROVERB
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be
PIERRE CORNEILLE
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
LAO TZU
He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened.
LAO-TZU
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
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He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
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A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
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A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
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He who thinks to deceive God has already deceived himself.
VIKRANT PARSAI
He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived
LEGAL MAXIM
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
TERTULLIAN
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He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
He is most cheated who cheats himself.
DANISH PROVERB
He who judges enables judgment upon himself.
TYLER J. HEBERT
He who never tickles himself, never laughs
DUTCH PROVERB
He who betters a man betters himself.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
He who buys what he doesn't need steals from himself
SWEDISH PROVERB
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu
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He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
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He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
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He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
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He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
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He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
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He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.
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Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble educ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains ...
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if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it...
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One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it;...
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All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Succ...
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to...
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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
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You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks f...
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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in ou...
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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first ti...
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ...
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
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So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for...
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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --he...
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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Man is the cruelest animal.
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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