Quotes with naivete

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• Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

  Eric Hoffer
  American writer (1902 - 1983)
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• Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• indistinguishable
• immediately
• degenerate
• aesthetic
• therewith
• defined

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