“A boor cannot be sin-fearing, an ignoramus cannot be pious, a bashful one cannot learn, a short-tempered person cannot teach, nor does anyone who does much business grow wise.”
2:5
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Franz Kafka book The Blue Octavo Notebooks
21 November 1917
Variant translation: Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one cannot see any stars.
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
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Source: Man and Superman
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“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”
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Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
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