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“Whoever imitates a people is one of them.”

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Abu Dawood, born in 817 and died in 889, was a historical figure whose profession and category remain unclear. more

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Book:On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers

Source: On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers

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“Whenever I find a spark of that hidden fire that will sooner or later consume the old and create the new, I am drawn to it with love and hope, regarding it as a sign of my future home.”

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“For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.”

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Book:Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato

Source: Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato

“Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely.”

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“The essence of the religious emotions consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.”

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“Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.”

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Book:Schleiermacher's Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato

Source: Schleiermacher's Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato

“Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves the reader in peace, as much as possible, and moves the author towards him.”

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“Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful teaching studio; wrote thousands of letters; traveled widely; attended the theater religiously; played cards, billiards, and bocce; and rode horseback for exercise. Not bad for someone portrayed as a giggling idiot in the movies.”

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“When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands of a professional pianist, such a piano can bury the strings and the winds and hold its own against the brass. But Mozart wasn't composing for a nine-foot-long, thousand-pound piano; he was composing for a five-and-a-half-foot-long, hundred-and-fifty-pound piano built from balsa wood and dental floss.”

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