“As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.”
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“The basic elements that make a person more or less interesting are: intelligence and character.”
Original: (it) Gli elementi fondamentali che rendono più o meno interessante una persona sono: l'intelligenza e il carattere.
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“[…]schools reward people who study more and more about less and less.”
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im Gespräch mit Hans Küng über den Weltethos, 2007, YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S4KhE6nzzQ#t=5m8s

“The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.”
What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
Intentions (1891)