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The woman wants to dominate, the man wants to be dominated[.]
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798)
A mind of slow apprehension is therefore not necessarily a weak mind. The one who is alert with abstractions is not always profound, he is more often very superficial.
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798)
The deceiver is really the fool.
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798)
Through failures one becomes intelligent; but the one who has trained himself in this subject so that he can make others wise through their own failures, has used his intelligence. Ignorance is not stupidity.
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798)
The guidelines for achieving wisdom consist of three leading maxims: 1) Think for yourself; 2) (in communication with other people) Put yourself in the place of the other person; 3) Always think by remaining faithful to your own self.
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798)
Nature made women mature early and had them demand gentle and polite treatment from men, so that they would find themselves imperceptibly fettered by a child due to their own magnanimity; and they would find themselves brought, if not quite to morality itself, then at least to that which cloaks it, moral behavior, which is the preparation and introduction to morality.
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798)
[W]hat alone has value is the use to which life is put and the end to which it is directed. The value of life has to be created by man, it cannot be obtained through luck but only through wisdom. He who is anxiously concerned over losing his life will never enjoy life.
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798)
Inclinations of illusion make weak men superstitious and superstitious men weak. ... The illusion that leads them to mistake the subjective for the objective, to take the voice of inner sense for knowledge of things themselves, also makes the tendency to superstition comprehensible.
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798)