Tomas Garrigue Masaryk famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being
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Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful.
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Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern France. It is a progressive movement, a reawakening, of which I expect a lot for the entire civilization.
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Dictators always look good until the last minutes.
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We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.
-- Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
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Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.
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Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.
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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.
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Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
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We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
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Why.. is human desire so unsatisfying?
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