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Quotes and thoughts that accompany me – sometimes because of their content, sometimes because of the question of who really said them.
„Live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas!"
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science, Aphorism 283
Nietzsche means that a life without risk, without confrontation with uncertainty, is not a truly lived life. It's about the courage to give up security in order to grow.
2026-02
„Problems cannot be solved with the same mindset that created them."
— Often attributed to Albert Einstein
About the source: The attribution to Einstein is not clearly documented – it does not appear in any of his published writings. The thought is still powerful.
2026-01
„The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Often attributed to Albert Einstein
About the source: Most likely not from Einstein. The earliest verifiable source is a text from Narcotics Anonymous from the 1980s.
2025-12
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