Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.
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There are so many people I wish I could have met:
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But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.
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Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.
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From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.
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To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.
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To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often.
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He broke the kiss and leaned against her, breathing hard. "Good morning to you, too. Man, I just can't stay mad when you do that.
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They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look. - on librarians.
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There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
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Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.
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Sulfur, when burning, absorbs oxygen gas; the resulting acid is considerably heavier than the sulfur burned; its weight is equal to the sum of weights of the sulfur burned and the oxygen absorbed.
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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it.
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You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
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Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.
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Educated fools; from uneducated schools.
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Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.
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Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
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In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China's most important philosopher.
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What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.
