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“I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.”

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Herman Koch

Herman Koch is a German writer known for his distinctive narrative style and profound social insights. His works often explore moral dilemmas and the complexities of human nature. more

“All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.”

Men Trying Lasts Common Mistake Pieces Subjects Periods Elements Standards Starting Philosopher Contemporary Conclusion Analysis Fixed Passive Testimony Resorts Starting Point

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.”

Thinking Enjoy Prom

Author:Victoria Justice

“Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.”

Men Heart Soul Body Moral Destiny Movement Concern Harmony Mortals Heavenly Astrology Heart And Soul Heavenly Bodies

Book:A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book

Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book

“The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.”

May Pieces Ethics Beast Torn

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.”

Men Law Animal Taken Higher Involved Ethics Errors Assumption

Book:A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book

Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book

“Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.”

Littles Virtue Example Privilege Woods Funeral Contributing Bundles

Book:Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits

“If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.”

Ifs Sleep Virtue Vigorous

Book:A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book

Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book

“We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.”

May Advantage Discernment

Book:A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book

Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book

“Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.”

Men Shows Angry Every Man Ass Assertion Scoundrels

Book:A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book

Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book

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