Es ist schwer den, der uns bewundert, für einen Dummkopf zu halten.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 72.
Es ist schwer den, der uns bewundert, für einen Dummkopf zu halten.
Aphorisms (1880/1893)
“No clever person can help here; I see that clearly. Here, only stupidity can help the stupid one!”
Original: (de) "Hier hilft kein Kluger, das seh’ ich klar: hier hilft dem Dummen die Dummheit allein!"
Source: Quotes from his operas, Siegfried, Mime, the dwarf (and master metal-smith), Act 1, Scene 3
“It's impossible not to admire a person who devoted his life to his ideas.”
This Biography Makes It Clear: The Founder of the Palestinian Popular Front Was Right (April 15, 2018)
“The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.”
Source: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
“It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present.”
Il n'est pas difficile de nourrir des pensées admirables lorsque les étoiles sont présentes.
Alexis (1929)
“I always admired Patton. Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy.”
The Brass Ring (1971)
Context: If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it. The U. S. Army still has to learn that. The British understand it. Patton understood it. I always admired Patton. Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes.
Variant: The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid
Source: "Northanger Abbey" (1817)
“The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person…”
“We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.”
Nous aimons toujours ceux qui nous admirent; et nous n'aimons pas toujours ceux que nous admirons.
Maxim 294.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
