Meaning of Life Perspectives in Berlin

"Is life not a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

"The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of tyranny, is to make the private into the public."

"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."

"To think for oneself is to question, to be critical, to discern the truth from falsehood."

"Moral law within. Starry heaven above."

"The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what one pays for it well."

"Political freedom, for me, means the right to participate in public affairs, or the right to share in the power that rules the country."

"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?"

"Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that one had as a child at play."

"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarian movements themselves."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."

"The act of beginning, of bringing something new into the world, is the very essence of human freedom."

"We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without."

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

"The most dangerous illness of a republic is not corruption or demagoguery, but the absence of citizens."

"Live your life as if your every act were to become a universal law."

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."

"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."

"Become what you are."

"Understanding means being able to articulate a response to what one is confronted with."

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."

"So act as if your maxims should be transformed into a universal law of nature."

"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."

"Genius is the ability to independently arrive at new and truly original ideas on a matter, without instruction."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."

"The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will."

"Wherever people are, there is the possibility of a world."

"Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."

"No one has the right to obey."

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

"Invisible threads are the strongest ties."

"Thoughts without content are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind."

"The problem with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, but were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal."

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."

"That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil."

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

"The greatest evil in the world is not done by bad people but by good people doing nothing."

"Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end."

"Have courage to use your own understanding."

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."

"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger."

"El amor y la risa son los mejores ingredientes para una vida plena."

"finding my personal style"

"finding strength i didnt know i had tbh"

"balance"

"late night talks about nothing and everything"