WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:21:53 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg intellectualizing – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von -- Aphorisms [Aphorismen], No. 104 (1880) [tr. Wister (1883)] https://wist.info/von-ebner-eschenbach-marie/70651/ https://wist.info/von-ebner-eschenbach-marie/70651/#respond Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:04:24 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=70651 The world would be much better off if the pains taken to analyze the subtlest moral laws were given to the practice of the simplest.

[Es stände besser um die Welt, wenn die Mühe, die man sich gibt, die subtilsten Moralgesetze auszuklüglen, zur Ausübung der einfachsten angewendet würde.]


Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austrian writer
Aphorisms [Aphorismen], No. 104 (1880) [tr. Wister (1883)]
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(Source (German)). Alternate translation:

The world would be in better shape if people would take the same pains in the practice of the simplest moral laws as they exert in intellectualizing over the most subtle moral questions.
[tr. Scrase/Mieder (1994)]

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