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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The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.
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Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words , and in complicated cases can take place in no other way: those who have not a thorough insight into both the signification and purpose of words, will be under chances, amounting almost to certainty, of reasoning or inferring incorrectly.
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The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.
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As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.
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In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."
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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.
