Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
Quotes to Explore
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.
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Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.
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I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.
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With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.
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We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.
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People play with pain all the time.
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I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents' health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my own career is doing fine. I hope and pray that I am fit and fine always.
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
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And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.
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I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.
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Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.
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I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.
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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
