Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.
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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
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I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.
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Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.
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Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.
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I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything.
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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.
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There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.
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They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.
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Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.
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I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave her songs in and out of these funny, tragic stories - you can talk and sing and it's not this horrible offense, you're going to get thrown in artistic jail.
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The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.
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A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.
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Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
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Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.
